Chapter 287: Chapter 287: Rice Grain at the Corner of the Mouth, Tastes Pretty Good
Ivana Monroe blushed furiously, almost speechless, and whispered, "Leon Keane, can you be serious?"
Leon Keane: "Feeding my wife is not serious?"
Ivana: "..."
She couldn’t outtalk Leon Keane, and when she saw Leon actually put the food from the metal spoon into his thin lips, her heart skipped a beat. She immediately surrendered, "Don’t use your mouth, use the spoon, use the spoon."
She was really afraid of him.
Seeing this, Leon Keane smiled, finished the food in his mouth, scooped another spoonful, and watched as she obediently opened her mouth to bite the food off the spoon. His eyes darkened; this spoon had just been in his mouth, and now Ivana held it, equivalent to an indirect kiss.
Leon Keane’s smile deepened at the corners of his lips.
Ivana felt like his smile was strange, as if he had achieved some small goal. She suddenly realized that this spoon had just passed through Leon Keane’s mouth.
Ivana’s face flushed hot again.
Leon Keane fed her with great patience, neither too fast nor too slow, with the perfect pace. When she finished eating, he stared at her greasy red lips.
Ivana felt numb under his gaze. Was there something on her lips?
Ivana saw a napkin on the bedside table next to the hospital bed and reached out for it.
"Don’t move."
"..."
Leon Keane reached out to stop Ivana, "Let me get it for you."
Ivana sat up straight, and Leon Keane took a napkin, but instead of giving it directly to Ivana, he gently wiped her greasy lips twice himself, then held the soiled napkin in his hand. His fingers picked a grain of rice off the corner of her mouth.
Leon Keane casually put it in his own mouth, "Every grain of rice is hard to come by; we can’t waste it."
Ivana frowned, blushing down to her neck. He bought so much prepared food, yet he talks about waste? A single grain of rice stuck at her mouth corner is waste?
He’s doing it on purpose.
Shameless!
"Tastes good."
Leon Keane showed a satisfied expression on his handsome face and threw the napkin into the trash can by the bed, speaking with deeper meaning.
Ivana rolled her eyes at him.
"Daddy, what’s tasting good?" Timmy Monroe curiously asked.
"Dinner was good tonight."
"Daddy, it seems like you haven’t eaten yet! How do you know it was good?"
"I just..."
"Your dinner’s going cold; aren’t you going to eat it?" Ivana interrupted Leon Keane, speaking with irritation.
Seeing Ivana’s warning gaze, Leon Keane smiled, "I’ll go eat now."
Leon Keane went to eat; Timmy had already finished his meal.
Timmy asked Leon Keane, "Daddy, have you tasted Mommy’s cooking?"
Leon Keane replied mysteriously, "You should ask your mommy."
Timmy, being sharp for a young age, said, "No need to ask Mommy. I know Daddy has tasted Mommy’s cooking."
If he hadn’t, how else would Daddy know it tasted good?
So strange! When did Daddy eat Mommy’s cooking?
Hearing the conversation between Leon Keane and Timmy, Ivana wanted to bury her head under the covers.
Knock knock knock!
There was a knocking sound from outside.
"Come in."
Ivana thought it was a nurse, but she was surprised to see a lady in her fifties come in.
"Hello, you must be Mrs. Kane? My last name is Golding. You can call me Aunt Golding. President Kane asked Derrick Stern to get me to take care of you." Aunt Golding smiled warmly, exuding motherly kindness.
Ivana was taken aback; Aunt Golding’s warm smile reminded her of her late mother, who also smiled at her with such gentleness.
"My name is Ivana Monroe. Thank you in advance, Aunt Golding," Ivana said.
"It’s no trouble, not at all."
"By the way, Aunt Golding, please don’t call me Mrs. Kane in the future. Leon and I haven’t held the wedding banquet yet."
"Alright."
Aunt Golding, being the smart person she was, understood Ivana’s intent to avoid unnecessary trouble with her request and refrained from flattering her.
"You’re about the same age as my daughter. If you don’t mind, may I call you Ivana?"
"Aunt Golding, what are you saying? You’re here to help me, and I should thank you. Why would I mind?" Ivana disliked the word "serve."
This isn’t the feudal era with class distinctions where the lower class serves the upper class.
Everyone is equal now.
Aunt Golding laughed, seeing that Ivana showed no airs of a lady of the Kane family. She genuinely liked Ivana from the bottom of her heart.
After Leon Keane finished his meal, Timmy started clearing the table.
Aunt Golding placed the clothes she was holding in a corner and quickly walked over, "President Kane, young master, please put down the dishes and let me handle this work."
Leon Keane said nothing, putting down the dishes. Apart from snatching work from Ivana’s hands, no one else had the honor. In the Kane family estate, he was mostly the type who wouldn’t even right a fallen syphon.
Timmy didn’t put them down, smiling, "Grandma Golding, I’ll help you."
Aunt Golding was taken aback, what did this little boy just call her? Grandma Golding?
Tears welled up in Aunt Golding’s eyes, as though grains of sand had blown into them. She hurried to take the dishes from Timmy’s hands; she couldn’t bear to let Timmy’s fair little hands get stained with grease. "Young master, be good. Grandma Golding doesn’t need help. Grandma Golding loves to work; otherwise, Grandma Golding would have trouble sleeping at night."
Timmy was shocked, "Grandma Golding, are you hyperactive?"
Pffft~
Aunt Golding laughed, "Yes, Grandma Golding is hyperactive indeed."
Seeing Aunt Golding and Timmy getting along cheerfully, Ivana smiled. Derrick Stern did a good job finding such a decent aunt through Leon Keane.
Actually, she didn’t really need anyone to take care of her, as she had just sprained one foot. Given a crutch, she could handle going to the restroom by herself.
But her primary concern was Timmy because a good maid and a bad one treat children very differently.
Ivana couldn’t stand the idea of Timmy being wronged.
Having stayed with her for six years, this child had suffered far too much and lacked too much love. Ivana worked so hard to make it up for him, wanting to give him the best of everything.
However, sometimes things don’t go as planned, for life is filled with unexpected occurrences.
Ivana knew Leon Keane couldn’t stay at the hospital with her 24/7 for a whole month.
This hospital and Mrs. Kane, along with someone like Julia Sinclair, who would pull her down the stairs behind her back.
Ivana was really afraid that Timmy might encounter some danger in this hospital.
"Leon Keane, I want to change hospitals."
"Your ankle is already in a cast, not suitable for changing hospitals. If you’re dissatisfied with the orthopedic doctor here, I’ll bring Ravenswood’s best orthopedic specialist over for your treatment tomorrow."