Chapter 268: A Gamble
Ewan tapped his black stylus pen on his large wooden oak table, deep in thought, his eyes concentrated on the pile of freshly printed comic books lying in a brown carton just beside his desk, which he had bought this morning.
He had even added the ones with female-themed heroes for Kathleen, as he had noticed during their little hangout that she seemed just as invested in the comics as her brother, seeing as she remembered most of the names of both the heroes and villains in the comics.
Would they like this new collection?
He believed they would. As a matter of fact, he couldn’t contain his excitement at the prospect of their happiness upon seeing the books.
But the problem that had him strung up was that it wasn’t yet his visitation time. As a matter of fact, it was so far from it. It was just four days after their last hangout.
Four days since he had seen them, and it felt like it had been a whole year, like he was missing his own arm.
He sighed and dropped the pen on the table. How would he convince Athena to let him see the kids again?
No matter how long he had thought about this, answers seemed to run away from him, as if they had envisioned Athena’s face when she had made her decision and didn’t want to get on her bad side.
He didn’t want to get on her bad side either, but he needed to see his children. They were a bundle of joy he didn’t have often. Over the past few days, he had cursed and regretted his past actions like it was no man’s business. If only he had just listened to Sandro or maybe stayed calm for a day to push away his feelings of anger, he would have been living a different story today.
"Honestly, Ewan, I am scared that you are working too hard today, that you are pushing yourself so much. I am tempted to make a call to your doctor and inform her that you are not taking the recovery process seriously..." Sandro stepped into the room, dragging Ewan away from the confines of his thoughts.
"Three business meetings in different countries over the past couple of days, and more local meetings than I can count... Don’t you think you are pushing it? Do you have a death wish or something?"