Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife novel Chapter 1005

Joshua and Terilynn already had a little third wheel on their date. Joshua figured, 'What's one more? Nothing amazing is going to happen tonight anyway.' "Hello, Sheffield, I'm going to see my idol. Wanna come along?"

"Your idol? Since when do you have an idol?"

"Terilynn's bringing over the little girl in my WeChat profile photo. Come on, man. You gotta meet her!"

Having just been tortured by little Nastas the whole day, Sheffield felt his head spin. He was still nursing a headache from that little encounter. "No way."

"Blowing me off just like that? The baby is part of the Huo family. You wanna get in good with these guys, then you need to learn to like them. All of them. At least try to be civil." Joshua wasn't going to give up so easily.

"Piss off! You want to be a punching bag for a little kid, be my guest. Not my style, sorry." Evelyn had to take his surname. Their kid wouldn't be a Huo, not technically, anyway.

Joshua insisted, "You need a break. A little R and R will do you some good. Come on, meet the baby girl with me. We can hang out while we watch her."

"Leave me alone! I feel like crap!"

"Fine! I just helped you out and you can't help me? See what happens next time you need help!"

Of course Joshua had it all planned out. He would play with the little girl for a bit, then pawn her off on Sheffield and go on his date, sans kids.

Sheffield rolled his eyes and gave in reluctantly. "Fine. Where?"

Joshua grinned. "Nice! The north gate of Shining International Plaza."

"I'll be there," Sheffield said, wearily. Sheffield thumped his pen on the desk. But when he thought of who got it for him, he picked it up, blew off the imaginary dust, put the cap back on and lowered it gently into the pen holder.

At the north gate of Shining International Plaza

Joshua and Terilynn were there, but Sheffield hadn't arrived yet.

"She is even cuter than the photo. You need to take better pics, Terrilynn," Joshua commented when he saw the baby girl. He brushed her hair affectionately. She was wearing a mask. Her big eyes blinked adorably.

Then he asked curiously, "Why the mask?"

"Her parents are celebrities and don't want their child to have to face the paparazzi yet," Terilynn replied. She had already come up with this excuse before she left.

"I see. Can I hold her?"

Terilynn paused and then said, "Let me ask her." Then she turned to Gwyn. "Gwyn, this is your uncle Joshua. He wants to hold you."

Gwyn stared at Joshua who was grinning innocuously. Then she put her arms around Terilynn's neck and turned her back to him.

The smile on Joshua's face immediately disappeared. "Even kids don't like me anymore!" he complained.

Terilynn soothed him, "It's not like that. Gwyn's not like other kids..." She paused, not knowing how to continue. "She wasn't like this before. She was outgoing and happy..." The little girl used to be as extroverted as Sheffield.

"Okay. So what happened?" When he heard this, Joshua understood something must have changed the way the girl looked at the world.

"Well, a few months ago..." Terilynn hesitated for a moment and advised him earnestly, "This is just between us. You can't tell anyone."

"No problem!" Realizing that she was serious, he nodded.

Leaning closer to him, Terilynn whispered, "A few months ago, she was kidnapped by a nanny who took care of her for nine months." Thinking of that, Terilynn still wanted to cry.

Joshua was startled. "And then what happened?"