Ch. 461..465: The Adorable Twins and Their CEO Daddy Chapter 461-465

Chapter 461

At this moment, Maurice was in his office. He sat at his desk with his phone in his hand, looking extremely gloomy.

“What? My grandpa left the hospital early this morning and hasn’t come back yet?” Maurice asked the nurse on the other end of the line with a long face.

“Yes, Mr. Moran,” the nurse answered in a trembling voice. “Mr. Moran, you know your grandfather. If he wants to do something, we can’t stop him at all.”

Maurice was not happy with Earle’s tomfoolery.

Earle’s physical condition was not good. What if something happened to him outside? Maurice was worried. He must find Earle right away.

After hanging up the phone, he turned to Corbin beside him and immediately asked, “Corbin, do you know where my grandpa is?”

Corbin lowered his head and replied, “I don’t know where the chairman is for the time being. I can’t get any information from his assistant Aleck.”

“Aleck…” Maurice thought for a moment. Then he suddenly remembered something. “My grandpa’s assistant is Aleck Hinks, right? I remember, he was the one who personally trained you. It’s said that a student can excel his master. Can’t you surpass him?”

Corbin couldn’t help but sigh. Indeed, Maurice knew him so well that Maurice had guessed he had a backup plan.

“Yes, I thought of other ways. Since the chairman’s heart attack last time, I have secretly installed a tracker on Aleck’s cellphone. We can now know the chairman’s location.”

Maurice looked at Corbin admiringly. “Okay, hurry, check it now.”

At first, Corbin didn’t want to use this method against the senior who had personally taught him many things.

But Earle’s safety was what mattered the most now. So he took out his phone and opened the tracker application.

“Let me see… The chairman is… In kindergarten now… Huh? Wait! Kindergarten?”

At first, Corbin doubted that he had seen it wrong. He opened his eyes wide and took a closer look. It was only then that he confirmed that Earle was really in kindergarten.

“Oh, no! Mr. Moran, the tracker shows that your grandfather is now in Silas’ kindergarten,” Corbin immediately reported to Maurice.

“What is he doing in the kindergarten?”

Maurice’s heart sank. Adrian and Aileen were also in kindergarten now. Could it be that they were with Earle and Silas? If Earle found out that the twins were Eliana’s children, it would be troublesome.

“Come on, let’s go to the kindergarten.”

Maurice immediately stood up with a frown, intending to rush to the kindergarten.

As soon as the two of them stood in front of the elevator, the doors opened. Two people were standing inside, Eliana and Lucia. They went upstairs to discuss the design draft with Maurice.

The four of them looked at each other in surprise.

Lucia was the first to recover. Her eyes lit up, and she exclaimed, “Mr. Moran!”

Eliana didn’t mind their grudge, and walked up to Maurice with the design draft in her hand. “Mr. Moran, I have something to discuss with you. Please have a look at this design draft first.”

As she spoke, she handed the design draft to Maurice. But he just ruthlessly pushed it away.

“I’m busy now.”

After saying this, Maurice took Corbin directly into the elevator without taking another look at Eliana.

But Eliana didn’t intend to give up. Before he could enter the elevator, she blocked his way to stop him. “Mr. Moran, this is really urgent.”

“Get out of my way,” Maurice said, staring at her with his sharp eyes. “I swear, if you don’t let me go, you will regret it.”

His gaze made Eliana flinch.

Was he threatening her?

“No, I won’t let you go. This is really important to me, so I won’t let you go,” Eliana said through clenched teeth, refusing to retreat.

If she let Maurice go, her design would be ruined. She would never allow such a thing to happen.

Maurice ran out of patience, and the anger that had been suppressed in his heart surged up again.

“Eliana, who do you think you are? I am Maurice. I am not someone on call at all times.”

His words were like a knife that pierced through Eliana’s heart.

Of course, she didn’t forget who he was.

He was the CEO of Moran Group, a proud man like a god. He had met all kinds of women, and there was no woman he couldn’t get.

While she, after the Pierce family went bankrupt, became just an ordinary woman.

How could she be delusional that he would treat her differently?

At the thought of this, Eliana stepped back and got out of the elevator with a pale face.

Then the elevator doors slowly closed in front of her.

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The elevator descended steadily.

Outside, Eliana stood still, looking at her reflection on the shiny silver elevator door. She grimaced as she saw how she looked—as pale as a ghost.

She let out a long sigh and looked away to hide her feeling of emptiness.

“Are you okay?” Lucia said tentatively as she looked intently at Eliana. “Look, it doesn’t matter. There will always be another way.”

Lucia felt sorry for Eliana as she had witnessed the argument between her and Maurice.

Wasn’t Mr. Moran a good friend of Wyatt who was Lucia’s cousin? So how could he be testy and irritable?

He left even before Eliana could finish her words. How dare he bully others in this way?

So, in Lucia’s mind, Maurice’s image hit rock bottom.

Inside the elevator, Maurice didn’t look good either. He was staring at Corbin. His expression was unreadable.

“Why did the elevator suddenly go down?”

Corbin furrowed his eyebrows. He was also clueless about it. So he looked at the floor buttons on the elevator operating panel. He then noticed that he had pressed the wrong button!

“I’m sorry, Mr. Moran,” Corbin mumbled. His face was red in embarrassment. “It was my fault. I intend to push the open button on this floor, but somehow, I jabbed the wrong one. Before I knew it, the elevator started going down…”

Maurice bit his lip, trying to suppress a burst of anger.

“I’m so sorry. It’s all my fault.” Corbin could tell that his boss was beginning to lose his temper. He thought fast and said, “How about… Maybe we should go back now.”

Corbin stretched out an arm so he could push the right button on the panel.

“Oh, forget it!” Maurice’s voice boomed in the elevator, making Corbin drop his hand. “Fining my grandpa is more important.”

Maurice tried to dispel the disappointment on Eliana’s face from his mind. He knew that the most important thing to do at the moment was to go to kindergarten right away. He couldn’t let Earle find out the truth about the identity of the twins.

Before long, Maurice and Corbin were in kindergarten.

It was a recess when they arrived and the children were playing.

Maurice walked straight into the classroom of the fraternal twins. He was flabbergasted at what he saw.

Earle was playing chess with Adrian by the window where it was bright. Aileen was sitting on a small stool next to them. She had that confused look on her face so she’d ask Earle questions from time to time.

Earle patiently listened to the girl. He looked so interested that he answered every question. At the same time, he seemed to be enjoying playing chess with the little boy.

“What is going on?” Corbin looked at the scene, open-mouthed.

He couldn’t believe that the good-natured old man with the twins was the over-bearing and cranky Earle he knew.

Maurice raised his brows in obvious surprise. Just when did his grandfather become gentle and accommodating, especially to children?

Earle felt the presence of Maurice and Corbin and he raised his head to look at them. His countenance immediately changed. His eyes darkened and his face crumpled in annoyance.

“Why are you both here? You’re intruding in my time with my grandchildren,” Earle snarled at the two men. “Get out of here! I don’t want to see you here!”

Maurice didn’t flinch at the old man’s anger. He just walked straight ahead and then stood beside them.

“Grandchildren?” he asked, his lips curled up. “Am I not your grandchild? Or is there another one?”

Earle quickly pulled Aileen and Adrian to his side.

“These are my new grandchildren,” he emphatically told Maurice and Corbin. Putting his hand on the boy’s head, Earle added sardonically, “Adrian, meet Maurice, my utterly useless grandson.”

Adrian lifted his head and looked at Maurice, confused. How could this man be Earle’s grandson? Could he really be related to this annoying man who bullied his mother?

Aileen then looked at Maurice excitedly. “Adrian! Look, isn’t he…”

She wanted to say “daddy” but she felt a hand covering her mouth.

It was Adrian’s hand. He had to do it to stop the farce in time.

“Hello, Mr. Moran,” the little boy said tersely while looking hard at Maurice.

Maurice heaved a sigh of relief.

The boy was quick to react. Had he not done what he did, the secret would have been exposed.

Maurice came to realize what Earle had meant. “I just hope you’re only kidding me, Grandpa,” he said unhappily.

“Do I look like I am joking?”

Earle looked like a man with a serious mien. He felt that he was destined to meet the twins and so, he wanted to take them as his grandchildren.

Maurice and Earle looked at each other, their eyes flashing with anger. A quarrel was brewing.

Having been used to this kind of situation, Silas promptly came out to mediate between the two. “Great- grandpa, please stop. It wouldn’t be good for you to mess up things in this way. If you take them as your grandchildren, I’ll have to call Adrian uncle. How could I call my good friend uncle?”

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Earle, who was always serious, burst into laughter when he heard Silas’ words.

For a moment, the tense atmosphere eased.

Silas was about to breathe a sigh of relief. However, Earle’s next words immediately made the atmosphere freeze again.

“Silas, don’t call him uncle from now on,” Earle sneered. Then he mocked, “I wonder why I keep such an unfilial grandson. I’ll just think that I don’t have a grandson like him. I’ll let you and Adrian manage Moran Group together in the future.”

Upon hearing this words, Maurice’s face darkened at once.

Silas saw that the situation was not good, so he quickly changed the subject. “Great-grandpa, let’s not talk about it for now. You haven’t taken your medicine today yet, right? I’ll accompany you to take your medicine first.”

It was only then that Earle stood up. But before he left, he turned to Maurice and said, “I’m going to take my medicine. Stay here and accompany Aileen and Adrian.”

After Earle left, Maurice and Adrian looked at each other up and down with embarrassment on their faces.

They couldn’t just stand here like this and do nothing. Then Maurice caught sight of the chessboard on the desk. He asked, “Do you want to continue playing chess?”

Adrian couldn’t find a better way to get along with Maurice. So he just sat down awkwardly and started playing chess with Maurice without saying anything.

Neither of them spoke, so the atmosphere was unusually quiet.

Aileen looked at the handsome Maurice and then at Adrian, feeling that they were really boring. She shrugged and said, “You guys enjoy yourselves.” Then she ran to Ivy and drew with her.

Now, only Maurice and Adrian were left in front of the chessboard.

Finally, Adrian broke the silence. He couldn’t help asking, “What’s your relationship with my mommy?”

As he spoke, his little hand moved the pawn on the chessboard one step forward and launched an attack.

Maurice moved his knight forward and responded with a question calmly, “Where is your father?”

Adrian’s hand holding the chess piece suddenly paused. But he quickly responded, “I’ve never seen him before.”

Upon hearing this, Maurice became restless. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind at once.

How come Adrian hadn’t seen his father?

Could it be that Jonathan didn’t care about them at all?

But it couldn’t be. Didn’t Eliana live with Jonathan when she was abroad? But why would Adrian say he had never seen his father?

Maurice didn’t pay attention to the chessboard anymore. And while he was distracted, Adrian had already secured victory and put down the chess piece.

“Checkmate! You lost.”

Adrian took away Maurice’s queen with a complacent look on his cool little face.

It was only then that Maurice came back to his senses, and he couldn’t help laughing.

“Adrian, you won?”

Aileen immediately turned around and ran back to them with the paint box in her hand when she heard the noise. They didn’t expect her to move so much that the paint spilled over and splashed on the cuff of Maurice’s trousers. And the paint box fell to the floor.

She froze for a moment. Then she apologized timidly, “I’m sorry…” She was so afraid that she didn’t dare to look at Maurice’s face.

“Don’t do anything to Aileen,” Adrian said to Maurice as he immediately stood before Aileen.

Maurice didn’t mind it at all. In fact, when he saw that Aileen didn’t dare to raise her head after making a mistake, he was amused because he found her cute.

He couldn’t help teasing her, “Oh, you just say sorry? What else can you do?”

He didn’t sound angry, and he was smiling. When Aileen heard his question, she plucked up the courage to raise her head. “Actually, I can fix it.”

“Really? Okay, fix it.”

With Maurice’s consent, Aileen picked up the paintbrush from the desk and began to paint on the part of his trousers where the paint splashed.

After a while, a lifelike sunflower appeared on his trousers.

“It’s done.”

Aileen stood up happily with some paint on her little face.

Maurice looked at her. He found her so lovely that he couldn’t help reaching out and wiping the paint off her face.

Earle had just come back from taking his medicine, and he happened to see this loving scene.

It seemed that Maurice was getting along well with Aileen and Adrian.

He stepped forward and said, “Since you and these children are now so attached to each other, why don’t you take them to the Moran family to keep Silas company? You don’t need to support them. The Moran family has a trust fund for Silas, right? The trust fund is more than enough to support the three children until they grow up.”

The more Earle spoke, the more excited he became. It was as if he would really bring Aileen and Adrian home in no time.

“Grandpa, stop for a moment,” Maurice interrupted Earle’s fantasy forcefully. “Have you ever thought if the parents of these children would agree with it?”

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“They will disagree? But why?” Earle asked in confusion.

Maurice rubbed his forehead. “These children have parents. You want them to live in the Moran family’s house? Of course, their parents won’t let it happen. After all, the parents of these two children are still alive. How can they just give their children to other people?”

“You don’t have to worry about that,” Earle said confidently. “It’s actually lucky for them to send their children to our family. They will definitely agree.”

“How can you be sure about that?” Maurice asked, raising his eyebrows.

“Of course, I went to their house this morning. The children’s parents were very friendly. It won’t be difficult to convince them to let the children live with us.”

Maurice was stunned for a moment. “Their father was also there?”

“Yes, he was there,” Earle answered affirmatively.

Maurice was even more confused.

How could Adrian and Aileen’s father be at home? Was Jonathan back from abroad?

And he directly lived in the house he got for Eliana?

Maurice looked at the twins and asked, “Is your father at home today?”

Aileen and Adrian looked at each other with confusion in their eyes.

Aileen was more confused. “Our father?”

“Yes, that’s right. Is he back?” Maurice asked again.

Aileen didn’t know what to say. Did she have a father?

Adrian lowered his head for a moment. Then he seemed to think of something, and his eyes lit up.

“Yes.”

“No.”

Adrian and Aileen spoke at the same time, but they had different answers.

Maurice became more serious this time. “Is he home or not?”

Adrian grabbed Aileen’s hand and said to Maurice firmly, “Yes.”

Since Adrian held her hand, Aileen didn’t say a word this time.

She looked at Adrian in confusion with a little anger in her eyes. It was as if she was asking, “Why are you lying?”

But he just gave her a reassuring look.

Maurice had hurt Eliana, so Adrian wanted Maurice to misunderstand her and stay away from her.

Maurice stared at Adrian’s excited face, but he didn’t completely believe what Adrian said.

But the scene this morning when Eliana stopped him, saying that she wanted to talk to him about something, kept flashing in his mind.

Did she want to tell him that Jonathan was back?

Since the real father of the twins was back, she couldn’t wait to disassociate herself from him? Did she really want to return to Jonathan?

There was no way he would let it happen.

So what if Jonathan was back? As long as he was here, Eliana would never escape from him for the rest of her life.

Maurice’s anger was instantly ignited. His face darkened, and he clenched his fists. He was like an angry beast.

His terrifying aura frightened Adrian and Aileen. Their faces turned pale.

“Maurice, that’s enough!” Earle stood in front of the twins. “What are you doing? Don’t you see that you’re scaring them?”

Earle touched Aileen’s and Adrian’s heads and said kindly, “It’s time for your class. I won’t disturb you. Go ahead.”

Adrian and Aileen nodded and went back to their seats obediently.

Then Earle took Maurice to an empty part of the corridor outside the classroom.

The expression on his face changed. He raised his cane and hit Maurice several times.

“How dare you scare the children!”

“Grandpa, I didn’t.”

Maurice knew that Earle was only taking this opportunity to hit him, so he didn’t dodge. He felt the pain in his back after he was hit several times.

Earle only stopped hitting Maurice when he was almost out of breath. He finally vented his anger, and thus felt much better. His chest was less stuffy now.

After he calmed down, he looked at Maurice and said, “I wasn’t kidding just now. I really wanted to take the kids home because I really like them. I will leave this matter to you. Go talk to their parents. I’m going back to the hospital now.”

Maurice was about to open his mouth to refuse. But Earle interrupted him.

“If you don’t want to, then I’ll do it myself.”

His words were a clear threat.

Of course, Maurice had to agree. He couldn’t let Earle meet Eliana.

“Okay, leave this matter to me.”

Earle and Maurice had no idea that someone else was looking at them secretly.

Silas had been feeling that something was wrong with Earle all this while, so he quietly followed them not far away. And when he saw that Earle and Maurice were discussing something, he frowned.

What Earle said before rang out in his mind.

“These are my new grandchildren.”

At that time, he thought that Earle only said those words out of anger.

But now, it seemed that Earle really meant it. He really wanted Aileen and Adrian to be his grandchildren.