Rotten Twins: Making a CEO a Daddy novel Chapter 154

Lyla smiled at the little girl and said, “Come here.”

The smile somehow felt ominous to Gretel. “Mommy, can I not…”

“What do you think?” Lyla asked.

The answer was obvious. Gretel showed a pitiful glance at Hansel before she reluctantly walked over.

She quickly showed a bright smile on her face. “Mommy, what is it?”

“Did you know about your brother and his stuff?” Lyla asked.

“I…” Gretel sounded hesitant. “A little…”

“A little?”

“A little more than a little!” Gretel said with an awkward smile.

Lyla’s smile remained as she looked at her daughter but the smile felt cold and scary. It had seeped into Gretel’s heart, terrorizing her.

She knew what her daughter was like.

If Gretel said a little and said it in such a calm tone, she must have known it for a long time and accepted it.

Gretel was scared when she met Lyla’s gaze. She might not be afraid of Lyla because she usually listened to her brother, but not when Lyla was truly angry. Once Lyla got angry, not even her brother could save her from her mother’s wrath.

“Mommy, it’s not my fault! Brother told me to keep a secret!”

The quick-witted Gretel quickly shifted the blame to Hansel.

Hansel helplessly scoffed at her. He really could not do anything about this sister of his.

“Is that so?” Lyla asked.

“It is!” Gretel nodded strongly.

“But it seems like you’ve accepted it well enough. It’s a dangerous matter, aren’t you scared?”

“Of course I’m scared!” Gretel nodded, looking all shocked and terrified. “But I didn’t want Mommy to be worried!”

“Then what about last night?” Mark joined the conversation.

Both Lyla and Gretel looked at the man together.

Mark walked over to the couch and sat down beside Lyla. “What were you doing in front of his computer last night?”

Gretel did not expect Mark to join the ‘interrogation’ all of a sudden.

Her beloved daddy was the person that she admired most yet he sounded like he was ready to rat her out in front of Lyla in this critical moment.

“I was… watching a show…” Gretel lied without even flinching.

“Watching a show in the middle of the night?”

“Daddy, haven’t you heard? There’s a popular Korean drama showing right now!” Gretel said. She sounded like she really had watched Korean drama series before.

“Really? What is it like?”

“Uhm Korean oppa? Handsome-simida? Korean culture is taking over the world!”

Mark was left speechless when Gretel really named it.

“Are you sure about that?”

“Of course I’m sure! The Korean guy might not be as handsome as Daddy but it’s more than enough,” said Gretel. She tried her best in diverting the topic and made it sound as plausible as possible.

Mark strongly believed that Gretel was wasting her acting talent here, she should be acting in Hollywood.

“Bring your brother’s computer out and let’s have a look at the history.”

Gretel was silenced.

“Daddy, you don’t believe me?” Gretel feigned a devastated look as she asked.

“Yes!” Mark nodded.

Gretel felt like her heart broke, she was hurt by the distrust.

“Daddy!” Gretel pulled his sleeve and started to plead.

“Nothing you say will save you now!”

Lyla knew that based on the father and daughter interaction, Mark must have known something that she did not.

She frowned and asked, “What is going on?”

Mark looked at Lyla and then Gretel, he said seriously, “Are you working for Hansel?”

Both Lyla and Gretel were speechless.

Gretel did not answer immediately but the look on Lyla’s face was as bad as it could get.

Working for Hansel? Was that a joke?

Hansel was a boy and she could turn a blind eye at such things, but Gretel? A girl?

Lyla looked at Gretel and asked, “Is it true?”

“Mommy! No!”

“You have to know that us finding out and you telling the truth are different things,” said Mark. His handsome face had an indescribable stern look to it at the moment, he looked like a responsible father to his children.

It was the first time Mark spoke to Gretel using his identity as a father.

Gretel was silenced. All the lies that she prepared were stuck at her throat. She looked at her parents with hesitation.

“Daddy, Mommy…” Gretel tried to talk her way out of it but her parents looked at her seriously, denying her attempt to plead for mercy.

Gretel then sighed and said, “Okay fine, I’m helping Hansel…”

Lyla looked rather shaken. “What did you say? You are really helping him with the gang stuff?”

Gretel nodded.

“Do you have any idea what your brother is doing?”

“Of course I do!”

“Then why are you helping him?!”

Gretel frowned. She wanted to argue but a single glance from Hansel made her understand the situation.

“Okay…”

Lyla found it strange. It was a little too quick for Gretel to switch sides and it felt a little too easy. She knew the girl had always listened to her brother, but was it the same this time or something else that she did not know was happening?

Regardless of which, Lyla did not want Gretel to be involved in such dangerous matters.

“Then, Mommy, are you not mad at me anymore?” Gretel asked Lyla.

Lyla was a woman with a temper but in front of her children, her temper was nowhere to be found.

On top of that, she only realized what her children had been doing now, she had failed as a mother, what else could she say or do?

She sighed at the thought of it. “I won’t stop you from doing what you guys want to do but I hope that you will be honest with me. We can sit down and talk and I’ll do my best to understand and accept it. There’s one thing that I worry about the most, which is your safety.”

“I can turn a blind eye at everything else but you two are my babies, my treasure, I cannot neglect your safety,” Lyla said.

She rarely said such heavy words to her children and it successfully guilt-tripped both Hansel and Gretel.

The two of them walked over and Gretel said, “Mommy! Sorry! I didn’t mean to keep it from you! It’s just that I didn’t know how to tell you and was afraid that you’d be worried!”

She curled her arms around Lyla’s arm and started to act like a pampered child.

Hansel also got closer and said, “Mommy, that’s all I kept from you. I assure you I will never keep secrets from you anymore!”

Lyla felt better and was consoled by how matured her children were. She smiled.

Mark watched from the side. He realized Lyla was good at raising children, she never forcefully asked them to obey her, she would only make her stand clear and let the children make the decision.

Both Hansel and Gretel were smart kids, so they made a good mother and children pair.

Mark grinned happily.

“Okay, I forgive you two,” Lyla said.

Gretel then looked at her. “Mommy, I know you will never be mad at us! But to be honest, are you proud of us as your children?”

The twins had always been Lyla’s pride and she was always proud of them whether they were smart or not.

However, Lyla said the opposite with a shake of head, “Really? Should I be?”

“Of course! Are you not proud of us?” Gretel blinked pitifully.

Lyla shook her head. “I don’t feel anything in particular.”

“No way! Mommy! Other children at our age are still sleeping in their parent’s arms! While Hansel and I are doing stuff to feed ourselves!”

“Is that so?”

“Of course it is! Shouldn’t you be proud of us?”

Lyla thought about it for a while. “I guess there’s a little. Tell me, what are you two in charge of in all this gang business. Where does the money come from?”

Lyla was curious.

“Uhmm…”