Chapter 195 A Dummy With Money
After staring at Luke for a good amount of time, Joel turned his head back to Logan and exclaimed, “Uncle Logan, you look just like that uncle over there! My brother and I look alike too!”
Joel then looked at Quincy with his chin lifted, looking especially proud at this moment.
Joel liked his older brother.
He was glad that they were similar because that way, anyone could tell that they were siblings straightaway!
“That is right.” Logan smilingly threw a glance at Luke. “Just like how you are Aldo’s little brother, that uncle over there is my little brother.”
Joel hummed and nodded at that, and he continued, “Uncle Logan, I am a really good boy! I listen to my brother well. Is your little brother a good boy too? Does he listen to you?”
“Him?” Logan’s eyes stayed on Luke for a while, making the younger of the two look away while bashfully rubbing his nose.
Logan then looked back at Joel and caressed his small head. “He can’t compare to you. He is not even 0.0001 of you, Buddy.”
“Woah!” Joel’s eyes went wide with shock before he sympathetically said to Logan, “Why doesn’t your little brother listen to you, Uncle Logan? I listen really well!”
He then turned to Quincy. “Aldo, aren’t I the best-est at listening to you?”
“Yes, you are.” Quincy nodded.
Upon hearing the praise from his favorite person, Joel seemed to have grown a pair of wings and was so happy that he could fly.
Logan let out a hearty laugh after seeing the children’s antics. With his hand gently caressing Joel’s head, he looked at Madeline and said, “Aldo and Buddy are too cute.”
“Aren’t they?” Madeline smilingly glanced at her kids before she looked back at Logan. “How long are you staying in Dusktown for, Logan? Can you stay here a few more days?”
“I can,” he replied with a nod.
“Then…” Madeline didn’t continue her words as she peeked at Sebastian.
“What are you looking at me for?” Sebastian asked. “You are the lady owner here. You do what you have to do with your guests.”
“We are not guests!” Luke grumbled. “We are your brother-in-law.”
Sebastian only let out a scoff as he scooted a glance at him, which in turn made Luke roll his eyes.
Hmph! Cocky *ss. I will get Maddie to divorce you someday, and I will get her far away from you, Luke secretly cursed.
Madeline could only shake her head after witnessing the childish banter. Not knowing what else to say to them, she ignored them and said to Logan, “I am sure you are tired. Let me bring you to the guest room. You can freshen up and take a rest there. I’ll call you once dinner is served.”
Joel’s hand immediately shot up at that. “I want to be the one who calls Uncle Logan!”
Calling people for meals was his favorite thing to do!
“Alrighty, Buddy will come to get me!” Logan then picked him up. “Let’s go check out the room together.”
Madeline, who was leading the way, let out a smile as she looked at them.
Luke had stood up to follow after them, only to be stopped by Sebastian almost immediately.
“Take your new colleague to his dorm,” Sebastian ordered Conrad and Dean.
“Yes, Young Master!” the bodyguards answered at the same time. They each snaked their arm around Luke’s shoulder and announced, “Let’s go, Luke! Let’s get familiarized with our new room!”
Luke didn’t say anything to them. He only glared at Sebastian and hissed, “You! You vicious man!”
“Young Master Luke, aren’t you a little too humble?” Sebastian smiled. “I am not even 0.0001 as vicious as you are!”
Luke immediately roared in anger, “Bullsh*t! I am not as despicable as you are!”
“Are you sure about that? How could anyone be more despicable than a man who dared lay hands on 5-year-olds?” Sebastian asked, his eyebrows lifted.
“I…” Luke’s face was flushed then. “I was only playing a joke on my nephews. What has that got to do with you?”
Sebastian could only sneer at his words. “Those are my sons that you were ‘playing a joke on’! What do you think that has got to do with me?”
“But they are also my nephews! I already knew them when you were god-knows-where! My brother and I have helped Maddie raise the boys for almost three years, and now you want to act like their father when you have only taken care of them for a few days?”
“I plan to do that for the rest of their lives!” Despite the blatant provocation, Sebastian managed to keep his cool. “I won’t allow anyone to touch even a strand of their hair––not even you!”
Luke admitted that it was his hotheadedness that caused him to kidnap the children and he still regretted doing something like that. Guilt stricken, his gaze began to falter, and he looked away from Sebastian’s eyes. “How the hell do you even have such good luck?” he unhappily muttered.
Out of the billions of people in the world, he couldn’t understand how Sebastian was so lucky to be Quincy and Joel’s father.
To hell with Sebastian and his luck!
“Huh.” Sebastian didn’t feel the need to continue this pointless conversation any longer, so he gave Dean a knowing look.
After acknowledging the gaze, Dean started pushing Luke to the front and urged, “Stop wasting time. Let’s go. We will go choose our new room now, Luke. Since there are 3 of us, we have to get the biggest room!”
“How can one room be enough?” Luke scornfully complained. “Won’t we at least need a suite if all three of us are going to live in it?”
“We have a suite, too. It is a 7-star suite. Guaranteed satisfaction!” Dean proudly boasted.
“So what if I am not satisfied? I have the money! We can buy anything we are short on!”
A thought suddenly hit Dean.
… A dummy with money?
It definitely would be a little uncomfortable for three grown men to live together, but it was a completely different matter if one of the roommates was a dummy with a lot of money!
After Conrad and Dean finally brought Luke away, Sebastian walked to the sofa and sat down.
Quincy didn’t follow along after his little brother, who had been brought away by their uncle. Instead, he was reading a book on the sofa.
The elder of the two sons loved reading. He read almost any kind of book he could get his hands on.
Once, Sebastian caught Quincy reading a high school-level language textbook in full concentration. Honestly speaking, it was a sight that had caught Sebastian off-guard.
He had asked his son if he knew what he was reading then, but all he got in return was an extremely contemptuous look from the young boy. It was as if Sebastian had asked him a question too silly to answer.
He quietly peeked at the book his son was reading today, and it was an encyclopedia.
Not only that, Quincy was flipping through it so fast that he must be reading at least ten lines with one glance.
Sebastian was about to ask if it was possible to remember anything if he was going through the pages so quickly, but upon recalling the disgusted look on his son’s face last time, he quickly asked something else. “Aldo, what kind of books do you like the most? I will buy them for you.”
“I like books that make me powerful,” he replied while his eyes never left the book once. “I like any books that give me knowledge.”
Looking at his young son’s face, he began to have mixed feelings. “Do you…like how it feels when you read? Or are you forcing yourself to read because you want to grow powerful faster?” he asked.
That question finally made Quincy look away from the book to Sebastian. “I like how it feels when I read. Daddy, I want to be a wise man. I want to be a wise man who can help answer anything Mommy and Buddy don’t know. I also want to be a strong person who can protect Mommy and Buddy.”
Even though he was aware of how important it was to know how to fight, he knew that he was too tiny for that. It wouldn’t matter how hard he trained; he wouldn’t be able to become a fighter. Hence, all he could do now was work hard at gaining knowledge.
Furthermore, a book that he once read said that knowledge was power.
Because of that, he went on and read countless books to gain knowledge. This was his way of becoming stronger to protect Madeline and Joel.
“You can continue to read if you enjoy it, but you have to take good care of your eyes.” Sebastian lovingly patted the crown of Quincy’s head and continued in a gentle voice, “However, if you are doing this to protect Mommy and Buddy, you don’t have to be in such a hurry to grow up. Daddy is here. Daddy will protect every one of you!”
