Ch. 746..750: Powerful Papa with Triplet Babies Chapter 746-750
Chapter 746
Ashlynn saw the face under the umbrella, walking toward her. She was so frightened that she backed away and bumped her back against the tree behind her.
“What a coincidence,” Corentin said.
“Hello, Mr. Lloyd…” Ashlynn’s eyes flickered.
Corentin glanced at the tree behind her, raised the corner of his mouth, and asked, “Don’t you know that you can’t stand under a tree when it’s raining?”
Ashlynn noticed that his polite smile was different from Salvatore’s evil smile. She said, “I didn’t see any lightning. I was just taking shelter temporarily.”
“Get in the car. I’ll see you off.”
Ashlynn was flattered. “Thank you, Mr. Lloyd, but I can take the subway.”
“The subway is still some distance away. Do you want me to take you to the subway?” Corentin kindly said.
“No…no, goodbye, Mr. Lloyd!” Before Corentin could respond, she walked out of the shelter of the tree and rushed into the heavy rain.
Corentin stood there holding an umbrella, along with the continuous sound of pattering rain. With his amber eyes, he watched Ashlynn, who was wearing a bag on his head, gradually disappear in the distance.
When Ashlynn rushed into the subway station, her clothes were almost completely wet. She took out the napkin in her bag to wipe her hair. She was in such a mess.
She could not sit in Corentin’s car.
Even if it was not the same person, looking at that face was enough to cause her panic.
She did not want to be drenched by the rain on her way home, so Ashlynn borrowed an umbrella from the subway station and left.
Ashlynn went to the company the next day. After some thinking, she took her mobile phone and dialed Anne’s mobile number on the yacht.
“Ms. Vallois, your uncle is here.”
“Oh, he is probably here to visit my father. Is he at the company?”
“Yes, he came here yesterday afternoon. When he saw that you were not here, he left without saying anything,” Ashlynn said.
“Ms. Thompson, can you go to the hospital to visit my parents during the day? I’m feeling very worried about their condition,” Anne said.
“Okay, I’ll go.”
After hanging up the phone, Anne stood in the living room and looked up at the deck. She could not see anything but could hear the cheerful voices of the triplets on it.
As soon as she climbed up to the deck, Charlie ran over excitedly. “Mama, Papa caught a really big, really big fish!”
Anne looked around and saw that Anthony was sitting at the fishing site with the automatic fishing rod beside him. He was sitting leisurely.
After offending Anthony yesterday, he had kept a cold expression.
“Look, Mama!” Chloe ran over, grabbed Anne’s finger, and pulled her toward the fishing site.
Anne had to go there. There was indeed a big fish in the bucket next to Anthony. Taking a closer look, it was a… leopard coral trout?
He had actually caught a leopard coral trout?
This was amazing…
This was worth a lot of money.
Was Anthony the god of money? He could even earn a lot of money by leisurely fishing.
Although this fish meant nothing to him, this was a lot of money to ordinary people.
“Do we eat fish for lunch?” Charlie was excited.
“Ah? We gonna eat this fish?” Chloe’s face looked sullen, sympathizing with the fish. After all, she had been playing with the fish for a long time and developed feelings for it.
“We won’t eat this one then. Papa can catch other fish for us to eat. We’ll let you keep this fish!” Chris said.
Charlie jumped to Anthony’s side. “Catch a few more fish for our lunch!”
Anthony did not speak, and it seemed that he did not want to.
Then he told the bodyguard to get a fish tank and put the leopard coral trout in it.
The bodyguards went into the water to get some corals, aquatic plants, pebbles, and shells of various shapes to decorate the fish tank.
The triplets had never seen such interesting shellfish and colorful corals, their eyes widened, and they looked at the fish tank in awe. “Wow…”
“That looks nice…”
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Anne watched from the side. Anthony really got whatever he wanted.
This part of the sea did not seem to be deep.
“Papa, will this fish be too lonely? I’ll catch some smaller fish,” Chloe said.
“It will eat the small fish,” Anthony said.
“What!” Chloe looked terrified.
Anthony asked, “Do you still want to raise it?”
Chloe looked at the leopard coral trout swimming around in the fish tank, hesitated for a while, and then nodded. “Will it starve to death if I don’t feed it?”
“Yes.”
Charlie came over to comfort her. “If you don’t want to raise it and throw it in the sea, it will still eat other small fish.”
Seeing her daughter’s helpless look, Anne glared at Anthony, wondering why he was telling Chloe that.
She held Chloe’s hand. “You can give it fish food.”
Regardless of Anne’s glares, Anthony hugged Chloe and said to her, “The weak are prey to the strong, only the fittest survive. That’s the way of nature.”
“That’s right, big fish eat small fish!” replied Charlie.
“That’s right. For example, Dad’s Archduke Group can acquire any company to maximize profits. This is normal for us,” Anthony agreed.
After finishing speaking, he winked at the bodyguard.
The bodyguard threw a small fish into the fish tank.
The leopard coral trout reacted immediately and quickly swallowed the little fish.
The triplets were dumbfounded.
“It… It’s gone…” Chloe murmured.
“Wow…” Charlie and Chris were surprised.
Chris asked, “Does Papa also buy other companies like this?”
“Yes, I have to be fast and accurate and catch the other party by surprise.”
Anthony told them that the business world was akin to warring nations, and the triplets listened in awe.
Anne’s face twitched. What was all this about?
The leopard coral trout was no longer of importance.
Perhaps there was nothing wrong with what Anthony was teaching them a lesson. The triplets needed to know that there are both kind and evil people in the world, and they should know how to protect themselves.
Anthony and Blanca had no children, so Anthony would pay more attention to the triplets.
She was not so sure about this in the future.
The children of Anthony and Bianca were most likely to inherit the Archduke Group.
Anne did not have such big ambitions. She just wanted her children to be healthy and happy.
“Mama!”
Anne came back to her senses and saw Chris pulling at her skirt. “What… what’s wrong?”
She noticed Anthony frowning displeasingly at her and realized she had ignored what he said.
“Papa said that we will go play in the sea!” Charlie said.
“In… in the sea? I can’t swim!” To be precise, she was afraid of water.
She probably drowned in her previous life.
Ivan, next to her said, “There are respirators and oxygen cylinders, so you won’t drown.” Anne trembled, she knew her fear was illogical, but a phobia was a phobia regardless!
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“No, you go and play!” she refused.
“Mama doesn’t want to play with us…” Chloe looked sad.
Anne gave in when she saw the expressions of the three children that went from happy to disappointed.
“Okay, let’s go,” she agreed.
After putting on the small oxygen cylinder and the respirator in her mouth, she hesitated again.
She felt like she was going to hell instead of going to sea.
Seeing the triplets being taken into the water by the bodyguards, she was terrified. “Is the oxygen tank okay? You three have to bite the respirators in your mouths and don’t let go. Did you learn how to breathe just now? What if… what if they can’t breathe underwater?”
“Mmmmmm!” Chloe bit the respirator and said.
Anne laughed dryly and did not understand a word she said. She supposed it was words of encouragement.
The triplets waved to her, and jumped into the water one by one in a blink of an eye, disappearing into the water.
Just as Anne was about to yell out, she saw the bodyguards had already followed them under the water.
They sank until they were no longer visible.
“Are you not going down?” Anthony stood behind her.
Anne trembled in fright and quickly grasped the guardrail with both hands. Just in case he attacked from behind like the last time he did by the swimming pool.
She would faint if he did that again.
“Do you think going out to sea means staying on a yacht?” Anthony looked at her jokingly.
Anne pursed her lips tightly. Could she say that she really thought of it that way?
She thought that going out to sea meant feeling the sea breeze on the yacht, looking at the sea view, eating seafood, and enjoying the trip comfortably!
Why did she need to go into the sea?
“I…I don’t need to go into the sea! The triplets are accompanied by the bodyguards anyways…” Anne was nervous.
The blue water in the sea reflected the blue sky, which was a beautiful, and romantic sight.
However, jumping would mean drowning!
Anthony sat on the edge of the yacht.
He had his diving suit on, but he still managed to show off his slender and strong figure with huge muscles. “I’m here, why are you afraid?”
Anne knew he was familiar with water, but she was not!
“I’m afraid that I won’t be able to come up after I go down,” she said.
“If you don’t come up, I will follow you and take care of you,” Anthony said.
Anne’s heart trembled slightly, her expression was uncomfortable, and her heart hammered in her chest.
What was that he just said?
He said those words as if he was willing to die for her.
“Give me the respirator.” After Anthony finished speaking, he bit the respirator himself.
Anne hesitated and finally gave in. She put the respirator in her mouth and bit it, and followed the breathing method taught to her a few times.
Then, Anthony reached out and took her hand.
Her hand looked so slender and small, clasped tightly in his.
When she jumped into the water, Anne held Anthony’s hand even tighter.
She would not drown even if she did not take Anthony’s hand, but she was afraid.
The water enveloped her in all directions, pressing against her body.
Anne opened her eyes only when she realized that her breathing was not affected by the water and subconsciously looked at Anthony next to her.
Holding his hands did not do much to calm her down. She needed to see him.
Turning her face away, she began to observe the underwater world.
They were still in the shallow area, so there were no unique fishes, and all the fishes they saw were ordinary fish.
Anthony took her to greater depths.
They swam to the bottom, where the bodyguards were looking for coral shellfish.
Anne’s eyes lit up behind the goggles.
She was immersed in a vibrant underwater world, with shoals of fish moving around her.
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She would not be able to see this from an aquarium.
Anne raised her hand, and a small pink fish pecked her finger, tickling her and making her laugh uncontrollably.
Anthony looked at her, his eyes darker than the bottom of the sea.
Anne still did not dare to let go of Anthony’s hands when her feet touched the ground. After all, being in the water was different from being on land, and she could not stand firmly if she did not have a foothold.
Her body swayed with the currents of the water.
Looking up, she saw the triplets not far away, squatting to pick up shellfish on the gravel.
Charlie was holding a fish that looked like a centipede in his hand, and Anne was so startled that she pointed his finger at it.
Charlie let go after playing for a while, and the fish slid into its den.
Anne did not care about it, thinking it would not be dangerous there.
If it was dangerous, Anthony would not have let the children come here.
Anne turned her head to look elsewhere on the seabed, the whole area was blue, with small bubbles popping up nearby, and she could not see into the distance.
The unknown was always scary.
A hand came from the right and turned her face.
Anne knew that it was Anthony preventing her from staring at the other side so as not to increase her fear of the deep.
She focused on the corals and walked over to have a look.
She held Anthony’s hand.
She was afraid of drowning.
Anne bent down and saw a lot of sea urchins on the rocks next to the coral!
Her eyes widened suddenly, and she pulled Anthony to look at it.
If she took this to the yacht, they could feast on it! It would be free!
Anthony raised his hand to signal the bodyguard.
Then Anne saw a bodyguard holding a container with his left hand and long pliers with his right hand, picking up sea urchins one by one and putting them in the container.
He knew what she was thinking.
Just when she was thinking about how to make a delicious meal at noon, a small hand next to her stretched out, and a centipede fish was struggling and twisting in his hand,
As soon as Anne saw it, she was so frightened that she threw herself on Anthony.
Charlie looked at Mama’s reaction questionably.
The fish was cute.
‘Wasn’t it cute?‘
Anne’s heart calmed down only when she realized that it was the mischievous Charlie.
She also realized that she was way too close to Anthony for comfort.
Even though the seawater was cold, she could feel the warmth of his body.
Looking at each other through the goggles, Anne felt strange, so she turned her eyes away.
She went to find Charlie.
However, she could not find him.
Looking up, she saw the bodyguard leading Charlie, swimming around with schools of fish.
The three children got carried away with having fun in the water, as expected.
They then swam through the coral and over to the other side.
There were different sea creatures in different places.
It was hard to take their eyes off them.
Anne gradually adapted to the temperature of the deep sea and saw the gentleness of underwater creatures, which calmed down her fearful heart. She began to explore the underwater world.
This was her first time playing in the sea.
She was full of curiosity.
She also saw octopuses, which were not small in size, and she thought it would make a good meal!
She chided herself. Why was she always thinking about food?
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She rarely visited the ocean. It would be a pity if she did not take any pictures.
Just as she was thinking about it, she felt the hand on her loosen, which scared Anne, and tightened her grip on Anthony’s hand.
Anthony pointed to the stone next to the huge coral and then pointed behind him.
Anne saw the bodyguard following behind, holding a camera in his hand.
How could he know what he was thinking?
Anne squatted on top of the stone with Anthony’s help.
Then Anthony let go of her hand, went down, and waved at her.
Anne squatted on the rock and instantly knew what she needed to do for the photo.
If she swam, would she make a fool of herself? Would it look good?
She was overthinking. a
Anthony waited for her.
If Anne did not want to shoot, she would not let go of his hand.
Anne was thinking about how to swim down from above and how to look good in the picture.
She was fixated on thinking about how to look best in the photo.
Looking at Anthony standing below, he seemed no different from when he was standing on land. He still looked so imposing.
Anne measured the distance with her eyes, and after some time, she stood up and jumped down.
She kicked off with her flippers, stretching her hands forward as if trying to grab onto someone in front of her.
The photographer was not a bodyguard, but a professional photographer, who had prepared four cameras to shoot Anne.
He needed the perfect shot.
Anne threw herself into Anthony’s arms, landing just right.
Anthony held her waist, his black eyes staring intently at her behind the goggles.
Anne’s eyes were bright, and she was a little shy. She did not know how she looked. Did she look good in the photo?
She did not know how to swim properly and was afraid she would look terrible on camera.
She took a few more photos.
After some experience, Anne was not so afraid anymore.
She could swim freely in the sea without Anthony holding her hand.
Anne also took the triplets to shoot photos together.
They took photos with various poses.
The last photo showed five people in the shot.
Anne was sitting on a rock, and Anthony was standing beside her. As for the triplets, one was squatting to pick up shellfish, one was looking for centipede fish, and the other was looking up at the fish swimming upstream.
Anne and Anthony were looking at the children in the photo.
None of the five people looked at the camera.
The view was stunning.
Since she could not stay in the sea for too long, she took the children up after a few minutes.
Once on the yacht, they took the equipment off. Charlie reluctantly yelled, “No, I still want to play!” There was still a centipede fish in his hand.
All of Chloe’s clothes were filled with shellfish.
The plastic bag in Chris’s hand was full of colorful small fish.
“We can go underwater tomorrow. We are going to have lunch now,” Anthony said.
Anne had not noticed how hungry she was until Anthony brought it up.
He turned his head and saw the container on the side, walked over, looked at the sea urchins, and laughed. “There are so many. Can we finish them at lunch?” She looked expectantly at Anthony, then approached him with a smile. “Anthony, I want to eat stewed eggs with sea urchin, I have never tried it before.”
Anthony narrowed his dark eyes slightly, looked at the light in her eyes knowingly, turned his head, and told the bodyguard, “Throw away all the seafood.”
Anne was shocked. “Why?”
“Have you forgotten that you are allergic to seafood?” Anthony asked her coldly.
Anne was stunned, and sat down beside him, then complained, “I forgot these were seafood…then why did you ask the bodyguards to take them from the sea?”
“I do whatever I want to. It is not your place to question my decisions.” Anthony stepped up, looking domineering. “Nobody is allowed to eat anything that we took from the sea.”