Chapter 6 Edgar Atticus

"What?" He asked, he looked surprised at the words that came out of my mouth, but that didn't last very long because his face became blank almost immediately. "Plus I would like if we could keep the children away from each other, I can change Michelle's school." I blurted out without thinking, "Mr. Ezra , if you're all emotionally and acting this way because you just found out I'm an Atticus, I completely understand." He says keeping a straight face. What is he, a mind reader or what? I ran my fingers through my hair, I do that when I'm in panic. "Hey, look I'm not Chad.

We may be related but that all that there is to it, okay?" He tells me in an assuring tone, wait a minute how did he know? "How do you know about the Chad thing?" I asked frowning, he looks

away for a second and places his hands in the pockets of his grey expensive looking coat. "I ran a background check on you." He answers truthfully looking into my eyes. Of cause what was I expecting? These rich folks could get any

information they wanted easily. " Listen Mr. Ezra , I need to talk to you about something important. And I don't want our kids breaking contact. They are kids after all, don't let your emotions ruin their moments of happiness." He says, then takes out his card holder and places a card in my hand. I looked down at the black card with golden letters on it . EDGAR ATTICUS , the bold letters of his name captures my attention first. "Can you please contact me when you're calm?" He adds, "And why should I contact you? What could be so important that I would contact an Atticus?" I asked in a low unsure tone, staring in to his light brown orbs. He takes a step closer to me and places both hands on my shoulder. "I can't say for now, but I'm going to need you to please trust me." He says calmly with his breathe fanning my face from how close he was standing. I didn't trust my voice to come out firmly so I nodded and kept the card in my pocket. "Okay then have a good day Mr. Atticus and thank you again for today." I say one last time before walking towards my car. How could I not have known? I mean I have seen him on business magazines, on the internet as well, I know he's not a very public person like his cousin Chad but he is pretty well known. If I'm not mistaken he is the CEO of most of the Atticus businesses. I sighed in frustration and got in my car and checked the back to see Michelle was fast asleep and her seat belt was fastened securely, I guess the guards did it. I looked to the front of the school to see Seb's dad still staring at my car, ignoring it I drive out of the school and head straight for my mom's house to pick up Mickey.

EDGAR'S P.O.V

"Dad?" Sebastian calls softly, I turned to him with a smile, "Yes Sebastian?" I answered giving him

my full attention, "Does Michelle's dad not to be my other dad? I like him a lot, he is friendly and kind, he does not treat me like most people do." Sebastian says looking down at his feet with a small pout on his face. Since the first day Sebastian saw Michelle's dad at the ice cream shop he hasn't stopped talking about how cool he was for not being scared of the guards and him, and how he wanted him to be his other dad. Because of our family background people who knows about us are either scared to approach Sebastian or they do approach him because they want to get to me through him. It was the first time he met someone who genuinely cared for him. "Son, I haven't asked him yet." I replied truthfully. I watch as he plays with his seat belt strap and looks up with asad expression on his face. "Uncle Jamie and uncle Paul are happy together, we can be happy too with Michelle, her Dad and Mickey. They'd be my brother and sister, and I won't feel lonely again." Sebastian explains with a small smile on his face it was almost like he was imagining it in his head.

Sebastian isn't one to really ask for anything as a kid. He also tells me very little thingsand he never complains nor demand anything so imagine my surprise when he asked that Mr. Ezra be his other dad. I would go to the moon and back for Sebastian and that's why I didn't hesitate to run a background check on Mr. Ezra to know

more about the person my son wants me to marry. I won't lie to myself by saying I was not intrigued by Mr. Ezra too, he made me try something new for once in my life. But what impressed me more was the fact that he didn't know who Sebastian was but still stood in as his parent and protected him. "Sebastian, I promise you today that I'll make Michelle, her dad and her brother a part of our family." I gave him my word, he smiled sheepishly then tries to hug me but the seatbelt stopped him. "I'll hug you when we get down dad." He says cutely. I would dread so much if I fail to make him accept my proposal.

JACOB'S P.O.V

"Excuse me Mr. Ezra two ladies are here to see you, they aren't booked to see you either. Should I let them in?" My assistant asked as she peeks in with the door slightly opened. "Sure let them in." I replied as I went through flies I wanted to take home to work with. I was busy organizing the files on my desktop as well when someone cleared their throat to draw my attention. I looked up to see the bimbos from Michelle's school , like seeing them last Tuesday wasn't enough they couldn't just let me enjoy my Friday. I leaned back on my chair as I stared at them bewildered. But the nerves of these ladies is quite shocking, "So for courtesy sake, I'll ask you two take a seat and make yourselves comfortable." I say smugly , they both exchange looks before taking their seats. "So what's with this very pleasant visit?" I asked sarcastically, "Mr. Ezra we came to apologize for what happened last week with our kids." The ginger speaks first, "Really? I thought you children would never hurt a fly?" I questioned with a brow raised. "Please we reprimanded them could you please ask Mr. Atticus to let the kids back in school?" Blondie begs this time she looked stressed out but I didn't care. I sighed and shook my head, "Look, can't you just change your kids to another private school? I mean there are so many private school in New Jersey beside Primoris Academy. We don't want to risk the safety of our children." I tell them calmly, if I were Mr. Atticus I would do the same. "That's the problem Mr. Ezra, your pat.... Um... Mr. Atticus made sure no private school within the state accepted our kids." Blondie tells me almost in tears and in a state of panic. "Edgar did what now?" I asked furious that he would take things so far.