My Love for You Broke Me
Chapter 278

Chapter 278

Chapter 278

The moment he brought up Felix's Villa, I suddenly understood that he wanted to leave the two childrenin my parents' care. I felt a little reluctant about this.

He noticed the look of worry on my face and patiently explained, "Even if we take the children with us,only the nanny will have time to take care of them. It'll be better to send them back to the villa. After all,your parents are lonely, and they have time to raise the children. They'd be happy to have theirgrandchildren around them too."

I had hesitation written all over my face as Shawn stooped to meet my eyes. His voice was gentle ashe proposed, "Babe, how about we settle down in Bryxton? That way, you can go back home every dayto spend time with them as soon as you're free, and it won't be any different from raising the childrenyourself."

Settling down in Bryxton… But Shawn prefers Finland. Still, he was willing to settle down in Bryxton forme. Besides, he had a good point. Neither of us had much time to take care of our children, so it wasmost fitting to leave them in the care of my parents. Moreover, they would be right under our noses,and we could take them home at night and take care of them ourselves, so the offer would give us thebest of both worlds.

Shawn was as gentle as a lamb when he suggested this, so I naively thought he was doing it for mysake, but I learned a long time later that because I had been placing all my attention on the children forthe past two days, he felt a twinge of dissent in his heart and decided that it wasn't appropriate to keepthe children around. Hence, he lowered his tone while gently and painstakingly persuading me to sendthe two children to Felix's Villa, not wanting his share of love to be split up too much by the two

children. At the very least, he wouldn't be completely ignored as he had been for the past two days.

"All right. I'll spend two more days with them before I send them to my parents. They'll be happy tohave two grandchildren at once."

Shawn's lips curled into a smile. "Okay. I'll keep you company."

For the next two days, we stayed at Brimstone Mountain, then took the two children back down themountain to Bryxton and arrived at Felix's Villa not long after. My mother covered her mouth in shockwhen she saw the two children cradled in Shawn and Joseph's arms, her eyes instantly flooding withtears.

"Ree, are they my grandchildren?" Her voice was particularly cautious as she asked this question.

I smiled and replied, "Yeah. I'll explain things to you inside the house."

After entering the villa, I told them everything about Nicholas taking the children away, and my motherimmediately had a change of heart about him. "I thought he was a good boy, and I thought it was a pitythat you had divorced, but I didn't expect him to be so cruel! What is he thinking when he took amother's child away?"

At my mother's words, my father frowned and said, "How is it a pity that they divorced? What are yousaying in front of your future son-in-law?"

Coming to a realization, my mother hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry."

Shawn nodded and said politely, "It's all right."

He didn't mind at all as he was clear that my mother didn't harbor any ill intentions.

We left the two children at Felix's Villa, and before we departed, I instructed my mother, "The nannyhas been taking care of the children, so you can ask her if you have any questions. I'll come back tovisit you tomorrow during the day."

My mother smiled happily and said, "Okay. You two can go ahead. Your dad and I will take good care ofthe babies, so don't worry."

I looked at the children and reluctantly left for Eldham with Shawn. Once we arrived, he went about hisbusiness while I returned to the Xenos' Residence to deal with the affairs of the past two days. As I hadtaken over the Xenos Family, I had to personally handle the internal affairs and could no longercarelessly leave things to my assistant like before.

It was raining at night. Shawn gave me a call and asked in a deep voice, "Are you at the office?"

"Yeah, I'm waiting for you."

He asked gently, "Are you tired?"

"No, I'm just a little worn out thinking about traveling between Eldham and Bryxton every day from nowon. I'm worried I won't last long."

Some things were easier said than done—for example, settling down in Bryxton when the XenosFamily's headquarters were in Eldham. In addition, Shawn's base of operations was in Europe.

"Have Anthony send someone directly to you to bring you to Eldham whenever something comes up.Eldham is just a few hours away from Bryxton, so it's not too tedious to make a trip back and forthevery day. If there's an emergency, you can rush back to Eldham. You have me at your back if that isn'tenough."

After a pause, Shawn's gentle voice sounded. "Ray, the Xenos Family has a self-imposed survivalmode. You should try to set it loose while being in control of the whole situation."

I asked curiously, "How do I set it loose?"

Once, Shawn was in control of the Xenos Family while also commanding power in Europe. Although itwas on a large scale, he handled it with ease and was often on the move, rarely meddling in the affairsof the Xenos Family. Kevin had said that he liked living life in the fast lane.

"Be a good girl. I'll tell you more about the Xenos Family when I come home later."

Now, Shawn was able to say these things to me without any hesitation. He was always so flirtatiouseven when he wasn't present.

"Okay. Where are you?" I asked.

"On the way to pick you up and take you to Bryxton later."

I hung up the phone and stared at the rainy night outside through the window. It was a beautiful sight,or it might be due to my good mood that everything seemed pleasant to the eyes at the moment.

I turned around and left my office to look for Anthony, who was dealing with some work in his seat.When he saw me arriving, he hurriedly arose and greeted me, while I asked him with a smile, "Whatare you busy with?"

"Some errands from the company," he replied.

I relayed Shawn's words to him, and he pondered for a moment before agreeing. "It should be possible,but the Xenos Family has a branch office in Bryxton, so if you want to stay there, I can send Gary overso that you'll have someone by your side to call on. However, I suggest that you return to the Xenos'Residence once every week. Back when Mr. Xenos was in charge of the family, despite not beinginvolved in everything in his family, he always comes back to the company every once in a while, tomake an appearance. On one hand, this is to intimidate his subordinates, and on the other hand, hecould handle all of the family's major affairs together. It's a good way to manage the family."

To manage things using such methods, the family had to be powerful in the first place, or they couldn'tafford to be so capricious. Ultimately, it was due to the Xenos Family's own capabilities that allowed meto be as free as I was now.

I agreed. "Yeah, let's go with that."

"Miss, there's one more thing I have to report to you."

Hearing that, I asked dubiously, "What is it?"

"We received an invitation from the royal family in France."

"What invitation?"

I had a feeling that things were not as simple as they seemed.

"You're invited to the Duke's funeral."

As the invitation to the funeral was sent directly to the Xenos Family in such a formal manner, it wasclear that they were pressuring me to attend.