The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 789 A Dream Comes True

"Alright, alright, I won't cry." Sheryl constantly nodded and said that to Charlie, so that he could feel better.

Charlie was extremely happy, but acted a little bit awkward. He looked at Sheryl and asked, "So Shirley is my twin sister, right?"

"Yes, exactly," Sheryl responded.

Hearing that, Charlie smiled affectionately and thought, 'Wow, so it means that I have my own sister, a beautiful little girl who needs my protection. I will try my best to be a good brother and strive to shield her from any possible danger.'

Sheryl smilingly inquired, "Charlie, would you like to come home with me tonight? Shirley will be so happy to see you. She will be delighted if you can stay with us for a couple of days. And, I want to make up for my absence as a mother all these years."

Charles immediately refused Sheryl's proposal without even listening to Charlie's will. He was well aware why Sheryl came to his house every day. She visited only to see her son. 'So, she would continue coming if Charlie is still with me, ' Charlie thought. He didn't want to miss the chances of seeing her each day, so he responded to Sheryl, "He's okay in here and I can take good care of him. You're busy with looking after Shirley, so just leave Charlie with me.

You can come here to see him every day if you like, and I can even assist to pick you up if you need."

Sheryl gave him a ferocious stare and said, "I'm talking to my son, not you! Is it clear?"

She bent down and softly asked Charlie, "Honey, would you like to come with me?"

Charlie turned to look at Charles and found that his father winked at him, so he got what Charles really meant. Charlie then looked at Sheryl and said, "Mom, it's all right. I'm comfortable at staying here with Dad."

Sheryl was a little sullen about it and replied, "Why not, honey? You don't want to stay with Mommy, is that so?"

Charlie replied, "Mom, of course, I want to be with you. I'm just afraid that Dad will be lonely if I leave him all alone.

You have Shirley but Dad will be all alone by himself if I leave. So Mom, please allow me to stay, okay?"

Charles was convinced by Charlie's response and gave him an affirmative smile. Charlie continued, "Mom, I know you miss me and I miss you, too. So why don't you just move here with me and Dad? We can take care of you and Shirley, too.

We're a family, so aren't we supposed to be together, right?"

Sheryl froze by listening to that. Her heart skipped a beat suddenly. She never expected that Charlie would ask her to move in with them. It was hard for her to decide because she couldn't convince herself to get over all that had happened before. Since Charlie had told her that he wanted to be with his father, she had no choice but to come to see her son every day.

Sheryl sighed and said, "Charlie, honey, you're too young to understand all this. You'll understand when you get older.

You're a good boy, it's fine to love your Dad. You're not coming with me and I can understand that. So I will come to see you every day, is that okay?" "Okay," Charlie responded, and gave his father a helpless look.

The look meant that he had done what he could, but Sheryl was still not ready to move in, and it was something he couldn't handle anymore.

Charles was a little bit discouraged with that, but he knew that he still had chances to get close to Sheryl, if she promised to come every day.

Sheryl was extremely joyful that day. She got home with Shirley very late. After Sheryl left, Chris said to Charles, "Hey, look. How do you plan to speak to Charlie about Leila?"

Charles looked at her and didn't reply. Chris continued, "Leila is not his real mother, but she has raised him for so many years. It's impossible to cut off all the connections between them." "That's enough. I know exactly what to do. It's getting dark, just call Sam to pick you up."

Chris stopped harping and after a while, Sam came to pick her. When Charles saw them off, he went upstairs.

Passing by Charlie's room, he saw that the light was still on, so he knocked at the door.

"Come in," Charlie replied.

Charles opened the door and walked into the room. Charlie was intensely indulged in reading a book. Charles said, "It's time to rest!"

"Okay, give me just a minute please." Charlie had a quick bath and wore his new pajama on. He asked Charles, "Dad, is there anything bothering you that you want to tell me?"

Charles paused to gather enough courage and said, "Yes, yes, but it's not something serious. It's just..." He wanted to say but didn't know how to tell Charlie.

Charlie looked at his father and said, "Dad, there is no one but you and me here, you can tell me anything. You're my father and I'm your son, remember?"

Charles then asked, "I just want to ask you how you felt when you learned about the relationship between you and Sher. What were your feelings, my son? I'm afraid that you may replace it hard to accept it at a time."

Charlie turned to look at Charles and said, "I remember I have already told you this. I'm okay, really. You don't need to worry about me at all, Dad."

Charles touched his hair and stated, "I know you're a good boy. And, I am so proud of you! I know you don't want me to get worried. But I know that you must have some thoughts about it, right? I want you to talk to me about it and open up. I'm your father, remember?"

Charlie kept his head down for a moment. After a while, he looked up at Charles and said, "It's true that I was shocked when I learned about it at first, but I have been with Sher for so long and we have already become closest friends. When I learned that she is my mother, I was every happy about it, I thought that I would now be loved by my real Mom."

Charlie was telling his father the truth. Leila was nice to him when he was with her, but he couldn't get into her heart and couldn't know what she really thought. The love she gave him was more of using. It was more of a give-and-take relationship rather than a pure selflessness of a mother.

The more Leila said that she regarded him as her own son, the more disgusted he felt about it. Charlie had never received the motherly love from Leila, which he surely deserved. What he needed was the sincere love from the heart of his real mother.

But Leila had always failed to give it to Charlie. Thereby, Leila had never been like a real mother to him in any circumstances. She had severely failed as not just a lover but as a mother too. But, Sheryl was completely different.

She would do anything for him, and Charlie could feel himself that she really cared for him. Every time he saw Sheryl holding Shirley in her arms, he had always admired it.

He had even envied it many many times that how amazing it would have been if Sheryl was his mother. It was that he had always craved to experience the honest love of his mother.

However, little did he know that the heartily desire, which he had always fantasized about, would become reality one day. It was as if Charlie's wish had been fulfilled like a miracle. He finally got what he had desired for years in his heart. Indeed, his dream came true!

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