
"D-dad!" Carver dared to call him. He looked up while looking at her hesitantly.
Karl was stunned to hear the new word coming from his son's lips.
Wh-dad? He just called me dad?
I don't know why it feels weird, and ridiculous at the same time. Maybe because it's the first time I've heard someone call me that.
Karl's face was blushing. His lips covered a thin smile, with eyes looking at his son full of shade.
I like it, he thought.
"Good afternoon. W-how's dad doing? I'm glad to see you." Carver gave her most beautiful smile.
Karl was silent again. Seeing Carver's adorable smile really almost made his heart stop beating.
"Good day, Carver. Good news. How are you doing?" Karl answered hesitantly.
She's really adorable. Her smile really made her funny, Karl thought.
Carver blinked his eyes a few times.
You really talk to me? Is this real? This real?
Turns out. It's true Aunt Mecca said. Dad is a good man.
Carver was swept away in his momentary daydream.
"My news is good" he said later.
...*...
Karl noticed Carver who was busy eating. He ate all the dishes in front of him so voraciously.
After a fairly brief conversation, Karl and Carver finally really enjoyed eating with them for the first time.
Karl could not look at his son. It still feels like a dream all this happened. He was called to the father for the first time after three years when his son was born, and then saw the boy eating voraciously in front of him.
She was absolutely adorable when she was eating like that.
It's hard to believe. He's really alive, isn't he?
Not a doll, is it?
Why is she so adorable?
Carver looked at his father.
"Why don't you eat?" ask her with a plain face.
"Here, I'm eating. You should eat a lot, too, yeah." Karl stretched out his hand, rubbing Carver's head crest completely as if calling out his instincts to wipe it full of tenderness.
Karl smiled at her.
Speechless carver. He held his head after Karl rubbed the top of his head.
Daddy rubbed my head? That's a sign that Dad likes me?
I'm really happy. It turns out Aunt Mecca didn't lie to me.
"Eat this too." Karl grabbed the food he saw by chance.
Gray had said that his son loved the food very much, and his initiative actually came up to give him the food he liked.
Carver stared at the food Karl had given him just now. He nodded then devoured everything so excitedly.
It seems like he really likes it as Gray said, Karl thought.
"Ohuk!" Carver suddenly coughed.
Karl came out of his daydream. He widened his eyes as soon as he saw what his son was going through.
"Good, young master!" Mecca involuntarily shrieked in shock. Everyone is confused by what they see.
Carver was silent without a word. Both of his eyes looked at his palm which was now drenched in blood.
There was so much blood coming out of his mouth, even his clothes were drained of blood.
D-blood?
Carver was trying to digest what he had just experienced.
Drkkkp…
Karl reflexes out of place. Panic approached him immediately.
"Carver, are you okay?" he said with an anxious face. His face suddenly turned pale as soon as he saw what had happened to him.
"Dad.." Carver looked at his father.
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