Publishedat 1st of October 2019 05:40:11 AMChapter 153
Advertis.e.m.e.nt"I don"t want to force you to take about it . " Ellie looked away . "I know in comparison we"re very lucky . I had my dad in my life for a longer amount of time . I got to know all about him . Nolan takes after him a lot more than I did . He liked teaching university cla.s.ses in his free time . Sometimes after school me and Nolan would pile into his office while he was practicing his lectures . He loved to teach us . I think some of my fondest childhood memories were in that times when we would be in the room and lecture to us . Dad would let us ask whatever ridiculous question we wanted . Sometimes he would know the answer and when he wouldn"t we could open his seventy volume encyclopedia and go look for it . You know that was before everyone had the internet so easy in their hands . I really adored being the apple of his eye when we had him . You know you don"t appreciate it really until it"s gone . "Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www . webnovel . com for visiting .
It had been a long time since Henry had looked at her like that . He eyes were far away like he was seeing something she couldn"t see . She wanted to touch him, but she waited .
Like lighting, Henry had been drawn back into his past--he could remember amber eyelids that blinked as she painted a petal with metallic paint . The drop of liquid gold bent down and then backwards, before Henry could see Ellie"s face swim into his vision again . He could smell almonds and vanilla faintly as well as coco b.u.t.ter . He felt warm for a second as moisture began to swell in the corner of his eyes . He wipes them quickly before gathering himself . "I"m really happy that you"re childhood was warm . Your father seems a lot kinder than I thought for a race car driver to be his daughter . You must have been much different from his other children . "
"Oh, did Chou tell you? Yes, I do have some older step siblings . They are quite different from me . I"d always compare them to vultures who just wanted to take everything away from anyone they could get their hands on . I used to pretend I wasn"t related to them when I was a child as they were nasty at school . We were such different people . " Ellie mused . "As it"s common in Asia, my grandparents arranged my father"s marriage to a close family friend . They wanted to join their two houses in some sort of predestinated bond . You know the sort of thing where they hire a fortune teller and have star charts read? My father had a very auspicious marriage by that account . I don"t believe in it and neither did my mother . My mom was a firecracker . She did whatever she wanted and was sure to be completely independent of her family . She didn"t accept any dowry or gifts, she just took my father on their wedding day . As you could guess, they were very well matched . He would always say that mom swept him off his feet . "