Chapter 314: Good things
After Helian Chen and Alice left the place together, the security teams of both the families retreated silently.
It was only Diana, Maxim, Hazel and Qin Zehan left in the dining room.
And suddenly, Diana realized that the earlier breakfast with her parents was not that awkward after all.
The silence stretched between them till Maxim broke the tension in the air, ’’Mom.’’
Hazel who seemed to be thinking about something snapped out of her reverie when she heard Maxim’s voice, ’’I...’’ she looked at Qin Zehan, cuing for him to explain things but the man remained as frigid as stone, his gaze focused on Maxim.
There were a myriad of emotions that played on his face. Astonishment, happiness, surprise, sadness, anger, indignance and he felt a lot more that he could not even bring himself to describe.
He had a son whose existence had remained a mystery to him for decades and he had come to know about his existence all of a sudden, in the most twisted way that he did not see it coming. He was unprepared for it.
He was happy that despite his absence, his son grew up well into a responsible man. He was sad that he was unable to see his child growing up. He felt angry at his father for keeping such a big thing from him and the indignance stemmed from the fact that he was unable to be there for his own child, to witness his childhood, to be a father that he might have needed while growing up.
All the mixed feelings brought forward a sense of nostalgia that he did not know existed and he did not know what to do with the growing ache in his chest as something pricked his eyes.
’’He is your father,’’ Hazel spoke up when she realized the state that Qin Zehan was in.
A moment of silence lingered between them.