A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 42: Interrogative Call

“This smell belongs to Miss!” Sammy drooped his head in embarrassment, his shiny white teeth biting his bloodied lips which made him looked reserved. He had never spent any time with an unfamiliar adult woman before this!

“The smell on my mother's body is so fragrant. Did you get a whiff of my mother’s bodily smell too?” Dan asked Sammy as if he wanted to suck up to him.

A faint blush appeared on Sammy's cheeks as he continued to stare at Sherry for a long time before finally nodding.

“Does you mum have this kind of fragrant smell on her body?” Dan asked again.

“I don't have a mum!” Sammy's voice became hoarse all of a sudden.

Sherry felt something tugging at her heart as she shifted her gaze towards Sammy. Suddenly, she felt her heart ache pretty hard. Why did this poor kid don't have a mother?

“My dad told me that I am going to have a mum soon!” Sammy raised his face and met Sherry’s pretty features. This adult female was really beautiful! He would feel so lucky if she was his mum!

“Good boy!” Sherry's eyes were slightly reddened at the moment.

Dan stopped saying anything at this point. It turned out that Sammy didn't have a mother, similar to him who didn't have a father. He understood that not everyone had a father, and not everyone had a mother too!

“Miss, you are really beautiful” Sammy confessed earnestly, and as a result his face blushed once again. His huge watery eyes were blinking non-stop as they were fixated on Sherry.

Sherry touched her head while revealing a bitter smile and announced, “It's time for a meal! Dan, help Sammy to get a chair, we are going to eat together!”

“Alright! I'm coming!” Daniel moved a chair over and led Sammy to wash his hands before eating. “Sammy, why did your dad beat you? Is it because you don't have a mother so he is entertaining himself by beating you?”

“I..."

“Don't you want to go home?”

“It's not that!” He just didn't want to go back to a house without a mother. If he had a mother, he would definitely go home without hesitation.

“Your dad is probably worried about you since you are lost now!” Dan started to lecture him, “If I got lost, my mother would also be worried about me, so you have to call your dad after our meal, okay? We are now good friends, so if your dad beats you again in the future, I will ask my mum and Celia to give him a good beating, alright?”

Sammy was slightly worried about what Dan had claimed. What if someone were to teach his dad a lesson for real?

After their meal, Sherry discovered that Sammy was a shy child who didn't like to talk. Whenever he said something, his face would blush. He was really a poor child who never had the love of a mother since he was young. To make things worse, his dad also hit him from time to time. He must have left home because he was feeling too afraid.

Sherry was feeling very sympathetic towards Sammy, she vowed secretly to confront his dad and enlighten him with the grave consequences of beating a child.

How could someone beat up a child who was at such a tender age? He was too despicable!

“Sammy, tell me your house number. I will pass on some words to your dad and make sure that he would not beat you anymore in the future!”

“Miss, don't do that!” Sammy shook his head vehemently. His dad would be extremely saddened if he were to learn of his lies.

“Miss, my dad is a good person. He never hit me before!”

Oh my god! This child must be really scarred from the beating his dad had given him to the point that he was even lying for his father’s sake upon hearing that Sherry was going to call his dad.

“Are you afraid of getting scolded by your dad? Then I won't say anything extra. I would just tell him that you are at my place so that he won't be too worried about you. Is this a good enough reason?”

“Really?”

“Of course!” Sherry entertained the thought that this child must have been threatened by his dad somehow. His dad was really a scum.

After confirming that Sherry didn't have malicious intents, only then did Sammy tell her about William's phone number after hesitating for a short while.

Sherry immediately called him.

William was in a frantic state after searching his child for some time, and suddenly a call was coming for him and he saw

Sherry’s name on the screen of his phone. In an instant, his brows became furrowed.

What did she want at that moment?

“Hello!” William's hoarse and low voice sounded.

He only uttered a word, and coupled with the fact that Sherry didn't have his number in the first place, so she couldn't recognize William at first. She was only concentrating on mustering enough courage to lecture him, “Mr., are you Sammy's dad?”

Sammy? Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

William was stunned. How did she know about his son?

Before he could produce a response, Sherry's voice came again, and it was obvious she was impatient, “You're Sammy's dad, so how could you beat up your son?

Didn't you know that children are the future of the nation? Didn't you know that you can’t use violence on someone that young? Even if he is in the wrong, you still shouldn't beat him. With his current age, it is very likely that he already has some trauma because of you. Do you even take that into consideration?”

“Uh!”

“Uh? Your son is at my place, and he's very safe. I will send him back to you, but you have to promise me that you won't beat him up anymore! Other—Otherwise, I will call the police to apprehend an

abusive father like you!”

“I never hit him!” William frowned as he couldn't really understand what Sherry was saying. However, he was relieved to know that Sammy is safe and sound. He was just wondering why his son was at Sherry’s place. Could it be fate? It must be fate!

“What? You're still lying now? No wonder Sammy is so reluctant to go home because he has such a despicable parent. Why don’t you admit that you are an abusive parent? You always have the chance to correct your mistakes. Don’t you know that you will secretly influence your child to become a liar one day? How could you be so irresponsible as a parent?” Sherry roared into her phone with agitation the moment she heard him lying.

"...." William moved his phone further a little from his ear the moment she started shouting at the other end.

“Do you hear me clearly? It seems like I really need to educate you on the cons of using violence on a child. Listen carefully, you irresponsible parent! As a parent, you are very likely to lose control of yourself due to anger and cause irreversible damage to his body. For example, slapping him would cause his nose to bleed, teeth to break and also his nerves in his ears to be damaged. If you slap his butt, he would have extravasation underneath his skin which might cause him to have kidney failure, and worse comes to worst his spine would be affected which would in turn cause him have brain dysfunction. A child is very fragile, and if he is in contact with a hard surface, a tragedy is very likely to happen”

“I really never hit my child before!” William repeated. “I'm telling the truth.”

“What? You're still lying?” Sherry felt her anger rising up exponentially, “Shut up and listen to me. The worst thing when it comes to hitting a child is the emotional trauma that child has to live with for the rest of his life. It’s not only him who gets affected, your relationship with your child is severely impaired too. A damaged child is going to open a Pandora's box for both you and him”

“... William was at a loss for words. He couldn't understand what have Sammy actually told Sherry.

“Mr, do you know that Sammy is a shy child? This must be related to the fact that you are always hitting him. Your action of hitting him would cause him great fear and a loss of trust from him towards you. In the end, he would be unable to trust his environment and other people and this is the beginning of depression for most children. If this situation continues until they are adults, they would become an adult who couldn't oppose any opinion. Their emotional trauma causes them unable to build

any healthy and meaningful relationship with others besides the fact that they would struggle to defend their own rights. Mr., do you really want your son to become depressed? How can you be so irresponsible”

“I really didn’t hit him!”

“How long do you plan to continue lying to me? Mr., your son will mimic you and start lying too, and it would be hard for him to change this part of his personality anymore if he grows up. You must stop lying while Sammy is still young. Let me tell you the other undesirable effects of hitting your child!”

William couldn't help curling up the corners of his mouth at this point. It seemed that this woman that he was acquainted with was a very enthusiastic and friendly person. Not bad!

“Besides, the child would have great angst and indignation in their hearts if they are constantly hit. If there is no proper guidance for them, this type of negative emotion would accompany them for the rest of their lives, and they would threaten to mess up his life at any chance given. One day, they would be overcome with such emotions and he would definitely need an outlet for those emotions. Perhaps, he would rebel against you when he is an adolescent, and by that time you won't be able to hit him as you wish anymore since he doesn't really need you to continue living anymore. Or else, he might ruin his life to punish himself as a way of getting back at you. Can you see the serious repercussions of your actions now?”

“Is there anything more?” William forced himself to be patient and continued listening to her words.

Sherry once again became angered when she felt that there was a problem with his attitude, “Mr., your attitude is really unwelcomed. I can imagine that you are very disdainful and arrogant right now which is probably because you have never been criticized before in your life. Don't ever think that you can simply hit your son because he’s your son. Who do you think you are? You don't even want to admit

that you have hit your son. You're just a coward who don't dare to shoulder any responsibility! You're not a man!”

William felt his brows furrowed once again, and he was muttering in his heart, “If I am not a man, how could I have a son now?”

This damn woman, one day he would make sure to let her know whether he was a man! He would make her kneel down on her knees and beg for her life while saying that he was a man! Hmph!

“Do you understand now?” Sherry realized that he had been silent for a while, so she followed up with another question,

“Understand what?" William retorted.

“Aren't you listening to me?”

“I did listened to everything you have said, your eloquence with the language is impressive! I must give you that”

Sherry jumped up upon hearing that. She was making this call in her bedroom to avoid getting overheard by Sammy. She didn’t want Sammy to get affected by her words.

No wonder this child was afraid of his dad. It turned out that this man was really a hard nut to crack. Her words of concern and advise were easily dismissed by his indifferent attitude.

She didn’t need to guess to know that this man at the other end of the phone was very disdainful towards her lecture, “Mr,. if you can’t understand that you actions are wrongful, I'm going to call the police on behalf of your child!”

“Hmm? When William heard that, his sexy lips formed a malicious smile on his face. Then, he slowly settled himself on the seat of his Bugatti. He had been searching the city in his car for several hours and he even sent a dozen of his men to look for Sammy but to no avail. He never imagined that Sammy would be at Sherry's place. He must thank God for this turn of events!

“You can't even see that you are in the wrong here. Hitting a child is never the right thing to do!”

“I said, I never hit my son!”

“You are lying!” Sherry didn't expect that this man was so shameless. “Mr,. there is a God watching over you somewhere not far away. How can you be so shameless?”

“I never lie!” At most, he would fabricate something unreal in his words!

Damn it, how could she label him as a shameless man? What made her say that? “Where is my son? Ask him to come!”

Sherry thought that he wanted to terrorize Sammy, so she immediately squealed, “You must be lying, I'm sure of that! Why do you want to talk to Sammy now? You are the one who has hit him to the point that he doesn’t even want to go home, yet you are planning to scare him now. You are really too despicable. I'm serious when I said that I wanted to call the police. Just wait and see! I'll call the police now!”

“Sherry!” William never encountered such a stupid woman before. How could she naively trust a child’s words?

“Yes!” After responding to his words, Sherry suddenly froze, "Ho—How do you know that I’m Sherry?”

The creases on William's forehead further deepened and he was emanating a devilish aura now, “I can't believe that you don’t even save my phone number! You damn woman! How could you?”

“Why do I have to save your phone number? Who do you think you are? How do you learn of my name?” Sherry continued to probe without any fears.

At the same time, she did realize that his voice was oddly familiar. Who did it belong to? Who?

William's voice shifted a notch lower, "I just know! Now where is Sammy?”