Secret Wealthy Marriage
Chapter 227: Time Flies (1)

Chapter 227: Chapter 227: Time Flies (1)

Five years later

People say raising children is tiring, but for Carolline Ruiz, from the moment Axel opened his eyes to when he could turn over, and from turning over to sitting up on his own, until now when he’s in kindergarten, these five years have flown by.

She even felt that she hadn’t devoted enough of her motherly love to Axel, and yet he grew up so quickly.

Moreover, he became more and more sensible, more and more like a little adult.

In contrast, it seemed that she, as a mother, had grown more and more childish instead.

For Axel’s Hundred-day Banquet, Carolline used the 200,000 given to her by Bryan Hawkins’ grandmother and spent it all on a lavish affair, hiring a professional design company for the event.

This was the first time Carolline had been so wilful, disregarding Emily Hill and Henry Ruiz’s opinions and inviting everyone they could think of. In the end, her parents naturally obeyed her wishes.

After spending the entire 200,000 on Axel, Carolline felt satisfied and even let her long-guarded secret slip to her grandfather, who became thoroughly disappointed in her from then on.

How could such a reckless and shameless woman, pregnant out of wedlock, be the granddaughter of Master Ruiz? From then on, whenever there was a festival or celebration, he would forbid her to bring her child back to the old mansion. Carolline naturally agreed, as she did not want her child to receive nothing but cold stares.

Her treasure deserved love, not disdain and discrimination.

For the past five years, Axel had indeed received boundless love. His grandparents, foster grandparents, godparents like Megan Clifton and Andy Aguirre who were precious to him, and women like Mia Parker, who were nearly godmothers but arrived too late, all loved him just as much as his mother did.

Carolline was very relieved. Although Axel didn’t have his biological father by his side, he did receive love from many people, which might be a blessing in disguise.

So, Carolline thought this was the reason why Axel, in the past five years, had never asked her detailed questions about his biological father. It was simply because he had enough love that the presence or absence of his father didn’t seem so important anymore.

Carolline didn’t dare to initiate a conversation about this topic with Axel, and Axel only asked her once, when he was three years old. He asked her why his last name was Hawkins.

She said that in Z Country, all children must have their father’s last name; otherwise, people would laugh at them.

Carolline remembered very clearly Axel’s response at the time. He said, "Oh, then Axel does have a father, right? But he’s just very busy, right? Like Sky Walker, so he couldn’t be with Axel as he grew up, right?"

At that moment, Carolline was a bit stunned, because Axel was so sensible and had such clear logic at only three years old. She nodded vigorously, happy that Axel could understand this. As for the term Sky Walker, she assumed that Axel had learned it from watching cartoons.

After that incident, Axel indeed never asked about Bryan Hawkins again.

Carolline lived like an ostrich, day by day, in front of her son.

Time passed this way for five years. At first, when Bryan’s grandmother came to visit her fifty days after Axel was born, Carolline began living in anxiety. She was always worried that the astute grandmother would come to find her again one day.

But after Axel’s Hundred-day Banquet, she didn’t wait for Bryan’s grandmother to find her. Instead, she learned of Bryan’s grandfather’s critical illness. At that time, her maternity leave had just ended, and she had been back at work for some time.