Chapter 749: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 32
For a second, Zein felt his vision go dark. But he scolded himself immediately—it wasn’t the time to think about himself when his daughter was there looking distressed.
He reached out to caress her cheek and asked gently. "Would you like to go to the couch and talk it out with me?"
"You..." Lucy raised her anxious face. "You believe me, Papa?"
"What are you talking about, baby?" Zein frowned. "Have I or Daddy ever not believed you?"
Just like that, the distress vanished from the girl’s face, and Zein realized it wasn’t the ’past life’ that was troubling her--it was his reaction.
"You won’t think I’m crazy right?" she asked again, and Zein couldn’t help but sigh.
Would he, if he didn’t know about it beforehand? At that moment, Zein felt thankful that he knew what he knew to not make his daughter unnecessarily worry. The girl had been isolated enough from girls her age--there was no need to make her feel isolated from her family too.
"I won’t," Zein replied with a smile, caressing her cheeks still. "But do you mind explaining it to me, baby?"
"Can I...can Lu sit on your lap, Papa?" the girl asked shyly, mainly because she was the one refusing it in the past, breaking her Dad’s heart.
Zein chuckled and patted his thigh. He could feel how much his daughter had grown by the added weight and the fact that she didn’t have to crawl and climb to his lap anymore. She had a simple light jump and sat on his thigh, sideway, and put the book she had been carrying on her lap.
She seemed to be obsessed with the book these days, so Zein was rather intrigued. He wondered if the book had anything to do with her sudden conclusion. For all he knew, the girl still thought her dream was a future vision last time--which was last month if Zein recalled correctly.