The helicopter landed on an estate in East Hampton, and Grace got off the plane with her two children, and Simon greeted him.

Hugging Grace, who was facing shyness, Simon stretched out his hand to a pair of teenagers and girls: "Hi, Ray, and Rita." ”

I already knew some things on the road, but the siblings were still inevitably restrained and embarrassed in the face of Simon. Although, some time ago, their father also brought a new girlfriend who was much younger than him to meet with his sister and brother, but his father's little girlfriend and his mother's little boyfriend felt like they couldn't be the same.

What's more, it turned out to be Simon Westeros.

It was Grace who didn't know how to talk about pregnancy with her child, and a little selfishness to hope that the two children and Simon could recognize each other, so this meeting happened. Seeing Simon greeting a pair of children, Grace's shyness became even stronger, and when everyone finished greeting and walked to the villa together, they subconsciously walked on Simon's other side, separated from the two children by their little man.

It's late autumn on the East Coast of the United States, and the days are getting shorter.

It was not yet six o'clock in the afternoon, the sunset in the eastern sky had already fallen into the horizon, and everyone entered the villa and went directly to the restaurant to start the dinner that had been prepared for a long time.

"Your mother said that you like Chinese food very much, and I happen to like it too, so I hired a Chinese chef tonight," Grace sat down at the table, Simon said to the young girl who was sitting opposite, "I have been preparing since yesterday, it is very rich, you can taste it later." ”

Rita Split sat down on the chair pulled out by the waitress, and when she heard Simon say this, she hurriedly said, "Thank you, Simon." ”

"It's nothing," Simon said, not forgetting the boy, and said to Lei with a smile, "Can you drink, Chinese food is actually very suitable with wine?"

Ray subconsciously looked at his mother, Grace is the kind of parent who absolutely forbids her children to drink before the legal age, but this time, she lowered her eyebrows and did not react at all, leaving Simon to call the shots.

The mother didn't speak, and Ray didn't dare to agree, shaking his head and saying, "No need, Simon, well, thank you." ”

"Drink a little, I prepared a kind of rice wine from China, the degree is very low, drinking less is good for the body. ”

Seeing Simon say this, Ray had to nod: "That, okay." ”

Grace finally reacted, and when she saw Simon persuading her son to drink, she subconsciously wanted to object, but she hesitated a little, but she still didn't speak.

Rita, who was sitting across from her, was a little speechless when she saw her mother like this.

Is this still the shrewd and capable mother she usually has?

Simon chatted with Ray for a few words and turned to Rita again: "If I'm not mistaken, Rita, you're in the 12th grade of this year, are you sure which college you go to?"

Rita quickly withdrew her thoughts from her mother's side, and instinctively cheered up and responded, "I'm going to apply for Columbia University." ”

Simon actually knew this, the girl was for a certain kid in the Levison family, and the other party stayed in New York for her two years ago, and Rita also went to Columbia University with her, but he didn't break these points, nodded slightly, and continued: "What kind of major do you like?"

"International Relations. ”

Simon remembered that Lin Su also studied international relations when he was in college, and nodded, "Great choice." ”

Rita blinked, and couldn't help but look at her mother like her brother just now, she first talked to her parents about it, but they were all against it, but unexpectedly, the other side ...... Simon Westeros went so far as to approve of himself.

Then I felt that he might just be polite.

Simon noticed the change in the girl's expression and smiled, "You don't think I'm just being polite, do you?"

Rita suddenly felt a little weak.

Simon's expression was a little more serious: "You are wrong, I am really optimistic about you learning this major, because standing in the class we are in, the pattern and vision are more important than the specific professional ability, ordinary children study architecture, medicine, computers, etc., just because these are the most direct and visible for changing their lives, and we, standing at a higher level, whether it is national relations, psychology or philosophy, these things that are very illusory for ordinary people, are actually more practical." This is my personal experience, when a company is very small, managers need all kinds of professional skills, but when a company is big enough to a certain extent, management ideas tend to be philosophical. So, while majoring in International Relations, you can try to take Psychology or Philosophy at that time, which will be very helpful for your future. ”

Rita listened carefully to Simon's words, nodded and said, "Thank you, Simon, I remembered." ”

"Heh, you don't always need to be so polite, take it easy. ”

Grace next to her silently listened to the words of the little man next to her, her nervous mood gradually eased, and some tenderness appeared in her heart again.

After all, if the little man's words were not close to him, he would definitely not say them casually, and even this should have been a life experience that he would have taught his children.

Chatting so casually, it was dark outside, and the waiter began to serve a well-prepared dinner.

Teenagers and girls like Chinese food, in fact, it has been a matter of the last two years, in the final analysis, it is because Grace is influenced by Simon. However, with the delivery of the same kind of Chinese food that the sisters and brothers had never even heard of, the teenagers and girls realized that the Chinese food styles they had tasted in the past could only be regarded as the tip of the iceberg.

Even though they reminded themselves from time to time to be reserved in front of Simon Westeros, the two still ate a lot unknowingly.

Simon also shared a jar of Shaoxing rice wine with his siblings.

It wasn't until dinner was over, everyone went to a living room in the villa, and the waitresses brought tea to relieve their greasy feelings after the meal, and Simon officially talked to the siblings about Grace's pregnancy.

Although they thought that this was just a dinner party for their mother to confess to them about her lover, but after a dinner, and finally came again, the sister and brother were easy to accept, in the end, Rita, who was more skilled than the younger brother, boldly asked about some arrangements for her unborn brother or sister, and learned that the child would be surnamed Westeros, and the girl was both a little jealous in her heart, but also inevitably quite satisfied.

This shows that Simon Westeros is serious about his mother and even a certain little guy. Although, he certainly couldn't be his stepfather or anything.

Everyone talked until about nine o'clock in the evening, and finally Grace took the initiative to speak and sent Simon out of the villa. The two children must be living here tonight, and even if the relationship is clear, she is embarrassed to sleep with him.

Sending the man away, Grace took a pair of children back to the living room just now, hugged her daughter, who was naturally snuggling over, patted her, looked at her son again, and finally said with a little hesitation: "So, do you have any questions?"

Rita curiously stretched out a small hand to her mother's abdomen: "Mom, how long has it been?"

Grace pressed her daughter's moving little hand, her face couldn't help but blush again, and she whispered: "It's only been a month, and I just found out recently, and I can't touch it." ”

Rita rubbed her mother's shoulder coquettishly and said, "I think...... Simon is very good, good enough for his mother, and even much better than the girlfriend that his father found, and last time we had dinner together, I felt that it was a vase. ”

Grace paused and defended her ex-husband: "Men actually like vases, and it will be easy to get along." ”

Rita retorted, "Mom is not a vase. ”

"Of course," Grace said, curling the corners of her mouth, "because Simon is different, too." ”

Rita couldn't help but laugh: "I see, Mom, in fact, you mean that Dad will only look for vases." ”

"Don't talk about your dad like that, he'll be sad. ”

"Of course I wouldn't say it to his face," Rita said, remembering something again, glancing at her mother's expression, and couldn't help asking, "Mom, are you......?" Was it because of Simon that he divorced his father?"

Grace hesitated slightly, but nodded: "Yes." ”

Seeing her mother's slightly apprehensive appearance, Rita slapped her again: "Actually, it's easy to imagine, Simon is so good, if he wasn't my mother's lover, I couldn't help but grab it." ”

Grace knew that this was her daughter who took the initiative to excuse herself, but, hearing her say this, her eyes subconsciously widened slightly, remembering the mother and daughter she had helped him take care of in the first place.

is a little man, and he is definitely not a good person.

Although he felt that he should not mess with him, he still quietly decided in private to try to avoid him from seeing his daughter.

Raising her hand and stroking her daughter's hair, Grace thought of her son again, and asked Ray, who had been sitting next to her, "Baby, what are you thinking?"

Ray subconsciously shook his head.

Compared with the daughter, the son will inevitably have a more complicated mood for his mother to find another man. However, it is true that as his sister said, Simon Westeros is so high that Ray can't even resist much, he just can't help but recall some of Simon's words at the dinner table.

The man also asked him about his future plans, which university he wanted to go to and what major he wanted to study.

Lei is only one year younger than his sister, and he will also think about going to college next year, but before that, he really didn't think too seriously, after all, the changes in the family in the past two years have made the boy very satisfied.

Then, some of Simon Westeros' words inadvertently changed Ray's outlook on life.

Compared with his sister, Lei is a person who lacks assertiveness.

And the man said that no matter what university he goes to in the future, what major he studies, he should behave in the world with a conqueror mentality, don't think about blending in with the crowd, and don't deliberately change his principles for some interpersonal relationships, but try to let others change for himself, to become the leader.

Not only that, but the other party also said that he would give him some support in the future so that he would have the confidence to do so.

Seriously, even though his father has quickly become the core executive of First Boston in the past two years, and even if his mother controls the world's largest modeling agency, many times, in front of his classmates from more prominent backgrounds in Dalton Middle School, Ray inevitably feels powerless.

Things are clearly starting to turn in the other direction.

After thinking about it, the first decision Ray made was to refuse the fact that his best friend wanted him to find some models to cheer for the other party's cousin's 18th birthday. Gerald's family is also an old money family in the United States, and the other party's cousin will definitely not have a bad family background. If it had been before, considering that he might have broken down with the best friend he had been with for two years or even his friendship, he might have violated the rules set by his mother and his own insistence.

Now, there is certainly no need to do that.

It shouldn't have been.

After all, if he really did these things, even if he didn't charge a penny, in the eyes of many people, he might be reduced to the role of some kind of pimp, and in the eyes of those old money children who were already above the top in their bones, a pimp was destined to be despised. Even if some people get closer to him in the future in order to get in touch with those models, it will only be for other purposes, and a certain identity of him will be more confirmed, and it will not be possible to enter the core of some high-end circles in the future.

On the other side, Simon was kicked out by Grace and spent the night in another mansion that raised a pair of mothers and daughters surnamed Liu.

The next day after breakfast, I came to Grace's side again.

Today is Friday, October 26th.

The siblings had to go to school, and after breakfast they took a helicopter back to Manhattan, Grace stayed behind, and when Simon arrived, the woman was sitting on the sofa in the living room downstairs of the villa like a cat watching TV, very lazy.

Holding the woman's body and nestling together on the sofa, Simon also looked at the TV.

On the screen is a CNN commentary on current affairs in the morning, and the content is still about voting in the upcoming US election.

It's already the end of October, and this month's routine 'October Surprise' is quite lively to say, and it also gives Simon a certain sense of déjà vu.

For example, the Republican Party began to provoke an attack on the funding sources of the Clinton campaign at the end of September, and created a 'middle door'.

In addition, it is Clinton's private life.

At the beginning of the month, it was suddenly revealed that Clinton had raped a female government employee while he was the attorney general in Arkansas.

Clinton, on the other hand, kept talking about the health problems of his 73-year-old opponent Bob Doerr, accusing him of being unable to assume the presidency.

All in all, the various accusations between the two sides were revealed, the excuses used and some of the things that happened in Simon's memory.

History always repeats itself.

The various things in the past month have once again made Simon appreciate what it means to have nothing new under the sun.

Grace leaned into Simon's arms and watched TV with him for a while before finally asking, "Don't you need to go to work today?"

Simon put his arm around the woman's waist, carefully stroked one hand on her lower abdomen, and said, "You're my job." ”

Grace obviously likes to listen to this kind of love talk, and the corners of her mouth are curled, but she has not lost the ability to think: "I feel that you have been very tired lately, and it is okay to take a day off, well, but I, I can't do anything with you." ”