Chapter 399: Terry wants to sleep with mommy
Rory was sipping her juice when she suddenly noticed Nix was gone.
"Where’s Nix?" she asked.
"Mommy, Daddy Nix went to the vault to pick out some energy stones. He’ll be back in a minute," Terry answered.
Rory nodded. "Then we’ll wait for him to get back before we head home."
Nix was gone for over half an hour. When he returned, he couldn’t wipe the massive grin off his face.
"Rory!" He rushed straight to her side and held out a pink energy stone for her to see. "Look at the energy stone I found! Isn’t it beautiful?"
It was a dreamy, translucent pink stone, and it looked absolutely stunning.
"It’s beautiful," Rory agreed, nodding.
She could also feel a very powerful energy radiating from it.
Nix said excitedly, "Rory, once we get back to the Central District, I’m going to use this to build you a gorgeous pink mecha."
"All right, I’ll hold you to that," Rory replied with a smile.
In truth, Nix had already built her plenty of mechas. Unfortunately, when Vincent destroyed the manor last time, all of those mechas had been destroyed too.
Now that Nix was back and Rory was fully rested, the family quickly hopped back onto the star rail. By the time they returned, it was already eleven o’clock at night. After being out for so long, Rory was absolutely exhausted.
Tonight was Yuel’s turn to stay with her. However, he hadn’t come over yet because he went to take care of Terry first. Rory took a shower and crawled into bed on her own.
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Meanwhile, in Yuel’s room.
Terry was standing on the bed with a bare bottom, looking thoroughly displeased as he protested against Yuel.
"I want to sleep with Mommy tonight!"
Having just taken on human form, he was allowed to sleep with his mother as long as she didn’t mind. And Terry was certain she wouldn’t object; in his mother’s memories of Planet Earth, children as small as him always slept with their mothers.
Yuel put some clothes on him and said with a stern face, "Tonight is my night to accompany your mother. You are sleeping on your own."
A cub who could transform into human shape was already old enough to sleep alone.
Terry let out a sharp, unhappy huff and continued to protest, threatening Yuel. "No! Terry wants to sleep with Mommy! Daddy, if you don’t let me sleep with Mommy tonight, I’m going to tell her that you’re bullying me!"
He had already created an opportunity for his dad back at the underground auction house. His dad shouldn’t be so greedy.
Yuel: "..."
Looking at his biological son standing before him with hands on his hips and a "don’t mess with me" look on his face, Yuel didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Threatening him? The boy had just transformed and he was already learning how to threaten his own father?
Yuel took a deep breath, trying his hardest to keep his hand from landing on the boy’s backside. He wanted to be a gentle father. So, Yuel looked at Terry, doing his best to appear amiable while softening his tone as much as possible to reason with him.
"Terry, Daddy wants you to spend time with your mother too. But she walked around for a very long time today and she’s exhausted. She needs a good night’s rest. If you sleep with her, you’ll disturb her. Next time, Daddy promises that next time, I’ll definitely let you sleep with your mother."
The reasoning was completely sound, but Terry wasn’t buying it. As a cub who hadn’t inherited any ancestral memories yet, how could he understand any of this?
Puffing out his little chest, he shot back, "No I won’t! Terry is a very good sleeper, I won’t disturb Mommy. You’re the one who’s going to disturb her rest, Daddy!"
Did his dad really think he didn’t know what he was up to?
A vein throbbed almost imperceptibly on Yuel’s temple.
Control yourself...
Don’t hit the kid.
Be a gentle father.
Yuel pressed his lips together and quickly switched tactics. Since reasoning wasn’t working, it was time to play the emotional card.
"Terry," Yuel said, his voice instantly taking on a subtle hint of loneliness. A trace of hurt even flashed in his deep blue eyes, which were the exact same shade as Terry’s.
"Daddy hasn’t had any alone time with your mother in a very long time. Can’t you... try to understand Daddy’s position?"
As he spoke, he reached out, trying to pull up Terry’s little pants.
Terry dodged nimbly, wiggling his little bottom right out of Yuel’s reach.
"Daddy’s a liar! When Terry is asleep, I can clearly feel Mommy’s presence around all the time. That means Daddy gets to spend plenty of time with Mommy!"
Hmph. Even if it was his own biological father, he wasn’t falling for it.
Yuel tossed the baby pants in his hand to the side. He looked down from his height at his disobedient son on the bed.
"I’ll give you two choices. First, you go to sleep nicely right now. Second, I give you a spanking, tie you to the bed, and then you go to sleep nicely."
He decided that right now, the image of a gentle, loving father could be temporarily thrown out the window.
Looking up at Yuel, Terry scoffed internally. He knew it—whenever his dad couldn’t outsmart him, he resorted to brute force.
In an instant, Terry’s face went pale. He threw himself onto the bed and began rolling around frantically.
"If you hit me, I’m telling Mommy!" Terry wailed, bursting into a full-on cry.
"Waaah... Waaah..."
An earth-shattering sob instantly echoed throughout the entire room. The sheer volume of his crying was enough to pierce through walls.
"Bad Daddy! Daddy is bullying me, Daddy wants to hit Terry... Waaah... Mommy, save me!..."
Terry wailed at the top of his lungs, his chubby little legs kicking wildly on the bed. He cried with heartbreaking intensity, tears falling like strings of broken pearls as his little face turned bright red in seconds.
Yuel: "..."
"Stop crying."
Terrified that Terry’s crying would bring Rory running over, Yuel rushed to comfort him.
But Terry kept thrashing and rolling around the bed, refusing to let Yuel touch him. Yuel grit his teeth. Just as he was about to use his vines to tie Terry up, the bedroom door was suddenly kicked open with tremendous force.
BANG!
"What’s wrong? What happened? Who’s bullying our Terry?"
Nix burst into the room. Seeing Terry crying his heart out on the bed, he rushed over to comfort him. "Don’t cry, Terry, Daddy Nix is here."
"Daddy Nix... hic... sob..."
Terry seized the moment to roll into Nix’s arms. Hiccuping through his tears, he pitifully filed his complaint: "I wanted to sleep with Mommy, but Daddy won’t let me, and he wanted to hit me."
Hearing the commotion, Vincent, Vangar, and Jasper all followed closely behind. They all turned their eyes to Yuel in unison.
"I haven’t even touched him," Yuel tried to explain.
"You haven’t touched him yet, which means you really did want to hit him?" Vincent looked at Yuel disapprovingly. "Terry just took human form. It’s completely natural for him to cling to his mother. Rory definitely wouldn’t mind either. Why won’t you let Terry go be with her?"
Nix looked down at the little guy in his arms, who was crying so hard he could barely catch his breath. He couldn’t help but chime in, "Yuel, look how heartbroken Terry is. How could you bring yourself to hit him?"
Such an adorable cub. How could Yuel even think of striking him?
Vangar walked over and took Terry from Nix’s arms. "Come on, Terry. Daddy Vangar will take you to your mother."
Jasper also added disapprovingly, "Yuel, you’re really in the wrong this time."
Yuel: "..."
He hadn’t even raised a hand, okay? He just thought Rory was exhausted tonight and was worried that Terry going over would disrupt her rest.