Chapter 302. A Year Older

“Daddy! Mummy! We have to hurry or we will be late!” Emma shouted as he rushed into his parent’s room.

Bernard, who had been kissing his wife after he held her clasped necklace on, quickly switched tactics when he heard his son’s voice a second before the boy ran inside. He schooled his breathing and his expression to passiveness as he patted his wife’s necklace into place “There, that should hold, right, honey?”

Marissa, who couldn’t form a coherent word at the moment even if her life depended on it, merely nodded. She smiled when her husband turned to Emma, who had jumped onto the bed, swinging his legs as he looked up at his parents standing so close together.

“Young man, you should start knocking before you enter, you know. This is our bedroom, not yours, he said with mock firmness.

Emm was not fazed by his expression and with a grin, he said, “Daddy, you and mummy do not knock when you enter my room.”

“What? Are you saying that we have to knock