Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 411

The next few days saw Aeden becoming increasingly confused, much to Annalise’s amus.e.m.e.nt.

It was like watching a milder version of her brother that wasn’t as scared. The house had turned into something like a natural haunted house, but Aeden didn’t seem overly bothered. She wondered when he would catch on that it was his son’s doing instead of someone aiming for him.

The things that constantly moved in the house, the doors that constantly opened and closed.

The windows that opened or closed for you as you wished whenever you so much as gave it an order.

Lights that would turn on the moment you entered the room and would shut once you left it.

Annalise had missed these little luxuries, and she had definitely grown a bit spoiled while she’d been living back in the Neil Clan. She didn’t even have to worry about those things anymore and just left it to them to be taken care of.

On the other hand, when walked into or left a room, she kept finding herself forgetting to do those things.

What was this called?

It was easy to go from poverty to luxury but not the other way around, right?

Anyway, watching Aeden get confused whenever one of Alec’s bonded turned on the lights for him or whatnot was very cute. She just wanted to squish him to her. Her big bad husband was so lost that she found him adorable.

He didn’t say anything, but he just looked around and even took apart several things, only to find nothing missing, then when he put it back together again, it continued to do those things.

He was just totally confused.

Eventually, Aeden caught on that it had to be either his son or Ye Sha doing those things, but he just let it slide in the end.

The two were acting so seriously that Aeden didn’t want to incur his son’s wrath and become even further alienated.

He could feel the wall between them, which he didn’t like, but there was nothing he could do except slowly chip on the wall with a small chisel.

What he really wanted to do was take a sledgehammer and knock the entire wall down with his bare hands.

He’d never wanted to do things like this before, whether it was for Annalise or his parents.

Here he was, standing outside of Alec’s room with a plate of sliced apples in his hand, speechless at himself.

He could feel his beloved laughing at him from behind the corner. She was definitely enjoying this a lot, which made him even more speechless.

After all, she was the one who had chased after him in the beginning, with him showing no interest in her at first.

In the end, now he was the one doing the something similar towards his son.

What as this? A vicious cycle?

Aeden made to knock on the door, but the door opened before he could, which made his eye twitch. He forgot about it briefly…

He uneasily cleared his throat. “Uh, Alec…”

Alec looked up from the book that he had been engrossed in, confused.

His father had been standing there for a while, and he hadn’t made any moves to enter or make himself known.

In the end, he waited until he got bored, so he took up a book instead of waiting for his father to muster up whatever courage he needed to knock on the door. It was only polite to wait, after all.

He’d finally made a move. Just what did he want?

His eyes narrowed on the plate in Aeden’s hand, confused.

“Your mother told me to bring this plate to you,” he said, handing it over.

Alec looked at it. “Thank you,” he said politely.

It was just a normal plate of sliced apples, but for some reason, he felt a little funny at the thought that he’d been standing out there being all unsure about whether or not to enter.

He might have said that it was his mother that had asked him to bring it, but his shifty eyes said otherwise.

Reading people like this was still easy for Alec. There were so many stoic-faced men in his life that his skills had been pushed to a whole different level. It was almost an artform now.

Aeden was kind of awkward with him, but there was none of that awkwardness when he was with his mother.

Alec wasn’t particularly enthused about his father, so to speak, but he wasn’t against him either. He had a few unresolved feelings, but after spending a few days in his presence, it wasn’t so bad.

While he knew that his mother had intentionally let him overhear a few things, it had indeed softened him a bit.

After all they were, in the end, related by blood.

Aeden hesitated a bit more before he just blurted it out in the end. “Son, there’s going to be a dinner banquet tomorrow. Will you come with us?”

What he didn’t say was that this dinner banquet had been specially arranged by him to introduce his son to the people in the clan.

Anyone who dared to bully him in the future would have to face him!

Unexpectedly, Alec raised a brow and looked at his father’s expectant face and felt like teasing him. “I don’t really like dinner banquets…”

Aeden panicked a little. His usual cool was nowhere to be seen in front of his estranged son. “Don’t reject it so quickly. It’ll be beneficial to you in the future…”

Aeden listed out a long list of things just to convince his son to go, feeling awkward. Wouldn’t his effort all have gone to waste if his son didn’t attend the dinner banquet?!

“After the dinner banquet, I’ll bring you to visit your grandparents, okay?”

Alec raised a brow. His negotiation skills needed a bit of work but seeing that he had successfully teased his old man, he would just graciously accept.

He did want to see what this clan was like, and how different they were from the rest of the ‘normal’ people.

“Okay,” he agreed simply.

Aeden, who had opened his mouth for the first time in his life to convince someone else, had to reluctantly close his mouth.

He’d been kind of getting into it as his brain churned out reasons he could use to convince this son of his, yet he’d been cut off before he could really finish…

This was another way that Alec gently played with the people in his life…

As Aeden closed the door behind him, Alec’s lips curled a little in his room.

Aeden left with complex feelings, Annalise had to clap her hand over her mouth as she heard the entire conversation between father and son.

Aeden had no idea that Alec would have agreed to go anyway, and he’d been so enthusiastically convincing him. She just didn’t have the heart to tell him otherwise.

Cough…

Rather, she was having too much fun seeing her usually stoic husband try and get Alec to open up to him. It was sad, but also hilarious at the same time.

She wheezed.

He was so cute like this.