Chapter 424 Wanting to Speak but Unable to Utter a Single Word
Tristan looked up at the transparent liquid falling into the medicine bottle, remained silent for a long time, and suddenly spoke, "Call everyone back. Stop searching. After I get discharged, I'll hold a wedding. Remember, it doesn't have to be extravagant, but it must be known to everyone!"
He spoke slowly, clearly, and firmly.
This left Emory stunned, looking at him with a puzzled expression for a while, and finally squeezed out a word from his lips, "Okay."
After saying that, he turned and left, but inside he was feeling anxious, like a layman watching experts spar, unable to see their moves.
As soon as Emory left, Tristan called Nicholas to pick him up. With this commotion, the news of his discharge and return home quickly spread within their circle.
Sophia cooked a table full of dishes, and not only Nicholas, but Saskia with her child, and Natalia also came over.
The originally quiet and empty villa suddenly became much livelier, and Katniss was a bit surprised at the big scene for a discharge.
"Is my room ready?" Tristan placed his hand on the back of the chair, leaning slightly towards her. "Although I can't do any exercise, we can still share a room."
Amidst the noisy chatter of others, his voice was particularly clear, almost whispering in her ear.
Tristan's tone was serious and his expression normal, but his words made it hard for her to look at him directly.
She nudged Tristan's leaning body with her elbow. "We'll live as we did before."
Tristan looked at her with a satisfied gaze. "That's good, but you should drink more water recently."
His implication made it hard for Katniss to maintain her calm expression, her delicate brows furrowing together.
"You two should stop." Saskia raised her chin towards Katniss. "Today is Tristan's big day of discharge. You two are the main characters. We're all here for you. Can't you save the whispering for tonight?"
Emory nodded quickly, teasing along, "You can't do anything tonight anyway; saying everything now would be boring."
Sophia and Natalia were in the living room with the two kids, and this group of young people spoke without much restraint.
Katniss's ears turned red with embarrassment, and she unconsciously hid behind Tristan.
"We have endless things to talk about, unlike some people who start arguing after three sentences." Tristan sat up straight, shielding Katniss, and said to Nicholas, then to Emory, "And unlike some people who want to talk but can't say a word."
Nicholas had become a man who was famously afraid of his wife, and the so-called arguments were actually him being scolded by Saskia.
But he didn't see it as a shame; rather, he took pride in it, and looked at the humiliated Emory with schadenfreude.
Emory gritted his teeth. "If I had a wife, I wouldn't be here taking care of you. Can't you be a bit more considerate?"
Nicholas immediately added fuel to the fire, "See, Emory doesn't have a wife now, and he doesn't want friends either. I have a wife, but I'm still willing to take care of you. That's what a good friend is."
"Fuck!" Emory, feeling provoked, stood up and went after Nicholas.
The two of them started tussling, running from the dining room to the garden.
Everyone had almost finished eating, so they all got up and walked to the garden together, with Katniss always a step behind, walking alongside Tristan.
After going out, they sat on the bench watching them play and laugh.
Evie, standing by the window on the crawling mat, kept patting the window and shouting at the people playing outside.
Sophia's hand was steadying her, afraid she might fall.
"Take care of Evie for a while." Natalia placed Nicholas's son, Gerald Kennedy, next to Sophia. "Gerald is fun too. Give it a try."
Natalia's eyes were almost glued to Evie.
These days, Katniss had been running around with Evie, and she hadn't had a good look at Evie for a while.
Seeing Evie, she couldn't help but want to hold her.
Sophia had no choice but to hand Evie over to her and then played with Gerald.
"Let Katniss and Tristan have another child soon." Natalia thought, if they had two kids, she could at least take care of one.
"If you like kids so much, why don't you let Emory have one?" Sophia's heart ached; she definitely didn't want Katniss and Tristan to have another child.
After all... Tristan's health was still uncertain, and she couldn't let Katniss take care of two kids alone.
Natalia was also hurt by her words. Emory, that jerk, only thought about Lyanna.
He had met so many women, but none of them caught Emory's eye.
A few months ago, Emory was finally forced to start dating, but then Tristan's incident happened, and Lyanna came back.
Since then, he had been disappearing all the time. How could she expect to have grandchildren in this state?
Natalia was complaining in her heart when suddenly the phone rang in the dining room. She handed Evie to Sophia and got up to go to the dining room.
"It's Emory's phone. There might be something important. I'll get it for him."
Seeing it was a call from abroad, Natalia immediately stopped.
After hesitating for a moment, she answered the call, and before she could speak, Lyanna's voice came from the other end, "Emory, it's me, I..."
Natalia hung up without hesitation. "No wonder Emory hasn't been willing to date recently. It's because this woman keeps contacting him?"
Just as she finished muttering, the phone rang again.
Seeing Emory coming inside, Natalia quickly transferred all the calls from abroad to her phone.
Then she deleted the call history and put the phone back in its place.
"What were you doing with my phone?" Emory questioned Natalia, "Did you save some girl's number?"
"Your phone doesn't even have a female mosquito's number besides your mom's. Which girl would be unlucky enough to meet you?" Natalia covered her nervousness with a fierce tone.
After saying that, she didn't forget to wipe her hands on herself. "So dirty!"
Natalia's phone then rang a few times, not a call, but messages from Lyanna, which had been transferred over.
[Emory, give me a chance to explain.]
[I really don't have much time left. No one but you can help me!]
She seemed to be in some urgent situation, constantly asking Emory for help.
There were a few foreign words occasionally, which Natalia couldn't understand.
Natalia only knew that she couldn't let Lyanna continue to delay Emory, so she didn't reply to any of the messages.
In the evening, everyone went home.
Tristan was too arrogant tonight, and the consequence was being placed on the sofa to sleep by Katniss.
The sofa was large and soft, with a layer of bedding, actually quite comfortable.
But compared to the double bed, it seemed very simple and pitiful.
Suddenly having someone else to sleep with in the bedroom, Evie was very excited. She lay down, closed her eyes, patted twice, then climbed up to look at the sofa.
Evie's hand reached towards the direction of the sofa.
Before Katniss could react, Tristan quickly got up and went to bed. "She's asking me to come up and sleep."
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