Chapter Fourteen: "La Paix dans Le Paradis"

Lies and Love
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Sandara eyed the boys curiously. They were back home now and still the looks on their faces puzzled her to a high degree.

Ever since they entered with Seungri and Hino into Seungri's office, they had looked very happy over something then in the next minute, they looked almost distressed. After a couple of minutes, they looked quite happy again. Their intermittent facial expressions worried her, more so than it amused her.

"Boys, is there something you want to tell me?" she asked, as she took off Nabi's jacket and hung it up by the door while Hino did the same for the boys.

The two looked at her and shook their heads.

"Why do you ask?" they questioned in unison.

"You two look like you have a lot of things running through your mind," Sandara pointed out.

"It's nothing…"

"…we're just tired…"

"…that's all."

Sandara raised a brow at them, still doubtful and suspicious but nodded her head. "You three go change then while Hino and I start dinner, we-" she stopped abruptly as the doorbell rang through the house.

Looking behind her curiously and without moving a single step, Sandara reached for the door and opened it.

If she had opened the door alone without the rest of her family beside her, she knew she would've willingly fainted on the spot.

Right there, standing on the front porch, was Jiyong looking as handsome as ever. This was probably the only time Sandara had ever seen him up close in person looking so strikingly formal and good-looking. He was wearing a jet black suit, with a snowy white undershirt, a thin black tie and a red rose in his front pocket. All this would've looked normal on any man on business, but on him, he looked almost mouth-watering. He looked absolutely gorgeous and it fitted him perfectly.

Sandara felt dry. She had to grip on the door handle even harder just to keep herself up straight since her knees were taking the worst of his presence.

"Oh my," Hino whispered somewhere behind her.

"Wow!" the boys exclaimed with identical grins.

Nabi had merely looked up and was openly staring at him, with a much similar look as Sandara's.

Jiyong raised a brow at Sandara's obviously surprised look and nodded at her without a word.

She immediately snapped back to her senses at this.

"C-Come in," she muttered, stepping aside.

"Thank you," he said before stepping inside and letting himself get pulled towards the living room by the boys, with Nabi trailing after them.

Sandara looked back after them, a slight blush creeping up her cheeks before she turned to the door. She noticed a man outside, standing by a limo that was parked just in front of their gate. The man nodded at her and she nodded back with a smile before closing the door.

"I swear, that man is getting even more handsome by the day," Hino commented casually as she took of her coat and hung it beside Sandara's. "Sometimes I forget that he's a hot-shot actor whenever he's here with us."

Smiling back at the nanny, Sandara followed her into the living room where the kids were openly admiring his suit. Indeed, Jiyong has been with them for months now, but has always blended with them so easily that you somehow forget his actual status. But now, looking and dressed like this, reminded her of just how different they were now from before. This man isn't her old, simple boyfriend; this man is a famous, sought-after, and wealthy actor.

"So, what brings you here Jiyong?" Yonggi asked, still grinning at him.

"Yeah, you said you can't come over for a while since you'll be busy finishing your movie," Yonggun pointed out.

Jiyong laughed at their eagerness. "Well, I decided to surprise you all by coming over. I'm done filming all my scenes for the movie." As he said this, he turned to Sandara who immediately covered and faked a cough. Though he knew better, he caught her gasp at his statement.

"Then that means you'll be coming over more now!" Yonggi said excitedly, grinning like his brother.

"Yes, well, about that," Jiyong started hesitantly. "We'll have more time to talk about that later. For now, you guys go get changed."

"Changed for what?"

This time, it was Nabi who asked. Jiyong smiled broadly at her as she spoke out.

"I'll be taking all of you out tonight. It's a Friday, I figured your mother won't have any objections since she won't have to work tomorrow. And since it's still early, today's perfect."

The triplets beamed at him as he said this before turning to their mother.

Sandara looked at Jiyong then at her kids before giving a weak smile. This plan, she wasn't so sure of. She didn't mind going out with Jiyong again, she was pretty sure that what happened on their first night out when Nabi got hospitalized in the end, won't happen again. What unnerved her was Jiyong himself. He was dressed so fine that she was sure she didn't have anything for the kids to wear that would match him. Even she didn't have anything to wear that could match him. With him dressed like that, Sandara could only imagine where he was planning to take all of them, and she was downright sure she didn't fit there, nor did her kids.

'Or rather, our kids,' she amended thoughtfully, now feeling anxious.

"Mommy?"

This snapped Sandara out of her worrying. She turned to Nabi. "Yes, baby?"

"Are we going?" the triplets asked her simultaneously, with a look of excitement.

"But, Hino is-"

"She's coming with us," Jiyong cut in.

"Oh no, I can't!" Hino said hastily. "I have to meet with a few friends tonight," she reasoned before turning to Sandara. "I already told you two days ago, remember?"

"Yes," Sandara replied simply. She had completely forgotten that Hino did tell her about her dinner out with her old friends tonight.

"Then that settles it then," Jiyong said, standing up from the sofa. "Since Hino will be out anyway, then tonight is the perfect time for us to go out. That way you won't have to watch the kids by yourself Sandara." Sandara smiled meekly at this. "Hino, would you mind helping the kids get changed before you go?"

"Of course," she agreed before looking thoughtful. "Now, what to wear? I suppose the boys could wear that black dress shirt you bought them those months ago Jiyong."

Jiyong shook his head at her. "Here," he said, picking up the two large paper bags from the sofa and handing it to her. "I picked these up before I came here."

Hino peeked at its contents and beamed at Jiyong before bustling out of the room.

"Come on kids!" she called out from the hallway.

The triplets jumped from their seats and bounded out after her.

"I…I'll go and help Hino then," Sandara said rather awkwardly before leaving the room without waiting for another word from Jiyong.

Bora frowned at her cell.

"Why aren't you answering?" she asked out loud. She had called Jiyong five times already and still no answer. She even sent him a text message, and still nothing.

"Mom? Are you okay?" Yonggun asked, looking at Sandara curiously.

"Just fine, why do you ask?" she asked, as she fixed Yonggi's tie. Jiyong had brought the boys two- though much smaller –identical suits as his. From the thin black tie to the shiny black shoes, it's similar to Jiyong's in every way, except instead of a bloomed red rose, inside their front pockets were a pink rose bud each that was only half-way in bloom.

"You look sad," Yonggi pointed out.

"Not sad, just tired," she assured them. She lingered more than she should in the boys' room, fixing their outfits and trying to tame their hair, though without much success there, since she decided that she won't be going out with them for the night.

"Aren't you going to get ready too?"

It was as if the boys read her mind. This happens quite a lot that it didn't shock Sandara at all. And as if on cue, Hino knocked on the door and poked her head inside.

"Dara, you better change already. You wouldn't want to keep Jiyong waiting even longer. Nabi's done changing. I just need you to do her hair. I still can't do that braid you once did on her. I think it'll fit perfectly with the dr

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Deexji811 #1
Chapter 11: How could you hurt our lil angel Nabi?!?!??! 😭😭😭😭
JDarambles
#2
Chapter 20: I enjoyed the story a lot tho a lot of times I wanna er punch Jiyong and his stupidity for hurting Dara. The kids are smarter than their father here. Lol. But I love how the kids kindness have taken after Dara and how much of a kind and loving person Dara is to understand and forgive Ji. Thank You for this.
Dee_x_Ji1108
#3
Chapter 11: My poor Nabi! 😭🤧
Parkwonxxi #4
Chapter 20: Jjang Jjang Jjang!
Thanks authornim for the great story.
dyeeanadia
#5
Bora such a and already I hated her from the start lol. Btw I love this story 😍 This deserve more votes.
liezlpentecostes
#6
Chapter 20: I really love the story! Thanks coz it was a happy ending! Hoping for more daragon adaptation.
Jandec_c #7
Chapter 20: Wow such a beautiful story. This made me cry but I’m happy that the story has happy ending. Thank you so much.
bernie20 #8
Chapter 21: Looking forward to the new story ☺️
bernie20 #9
Chapter 21: It's very good 👍☺️ love it so much..
Thank u