A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 69 Son Missing

He was not his mother's child?

He was found?

Daniel stood at the door, his big beautiful eyes were widened, and red.

Inside the room, William was just as startled, he suddenly felt mixed emotions rising up in him, he was even a little joyful, "Is what you told me the truth?"

Sherry shared at William's face, her eyes were filled with tears, "Yes! Mr. Rowland, please stop asking about my private matters, it is not a nice thing to do to rip open other people's wounds!"

William looked at her helpless face with eyes filled with complicated emotions, he went to her and took her into his arms.

Sherry struggled, but he held her tight, "I am sorry! I didn't know the truth!"

The door was opened, and Daniel wanted to ask something, but he saw that William was holding his mom.

"I thought Daniel was your child, I didn't know this was how it really was!"

"How can you force someone like that? Daniel is so pitiful, he is the only one I have, we have been supporting each other for so many years, if it wasn't for him, I didn't even know what would have happened to me! William, how can you always pour salt in other's wounds?" She was crying heavily on his chest.

William was so busy comforting Sherry that he didn't notice the little person standing at the door.

Daniel pressed his lips together, tears filling his eyes, all he heard in his head was, he was not his mother's child! He had no parents!

Then he turned, and ran outside.

"I am sorry!" William held back his emotions, and patted on her back, he didn't know what he could say to comfort her, suddenly, he remembered Daniel, "Hush, don't cry, Daniel is next door!"

Just one sentence made Sherry stop. Right! How could she loose herself? What if Daniel heard them?

William scanned the door, it was open, and then he asked Sherry unsure, "Wasn't the door closed?"

Sherry immediately looked up, and realized something, "Daniel? Daniel?"

There was no answer.

Sherry ran outside, "Daniel, where are you? Daniel, I am calling you, where are you?"

But nobody was in Daniel's room, the computer was still on, and there were notification sounds from one chat window, it was Celia, they were still chatting, but suddenly she got no answer anymore.

"No!" Sherry screamed in horror.

"Sherry, don't worry, we will find him!" Even William was shocked, did Daniel hear them just now? He didn't want to imagine what the child must be feeling!

"Of course you don't worry, he is not your child, William, I am warning you, if anything bad happens to my son, I will kill you!" If it wasn't for him, she would have never told anyone the truth!

Sherry ran outside.

William followed her, the rain was pouring outside, it was autumn, and cold.

Sherry shuddered, and looked into the dark rainy night, she was horrified when she couldn't see anyone, she put her hands around her mouth, and screamed, "Daniel, where are you? Tell me, where are you!"

In the rain, Sherry could only hear her own heartbreaking voice, "Daniel, tell me, where are you? I am sorry, we were just joking, of course you are my child, you are my everything, where are you? Please answer me..."

"Daniel!" William ran outside, and screamed, but they couldn't find him.

It didn't take long before both of them were soaking wet from the rain, but Sherry kept running, "Daniel, where are you? Tell me where you are, please don't scare me like this!"

Where did he go?

Did he really hear it? That is the only explanation! William couldn't imagine how a child would react after hearing such awful news.

He only had to think of Daniel's little face to feel pressure on his chest, and trouble breathing, his heart was aching, he thought it must be because of his guilt that he felt that way!

"Daniel, where are you? Tell me, me and your mother were only joking, that is not true!" William yelled, but no matter how loud he screamed, he didn't get an answer.

Sherry kept yelling herself while running, until she lost her voice, she ran out of their street, and the passengers walking there were all turning to look at her.

Sherry stopped someone on the road, "Sir, have you seen a five year old boy, about this tall?"

"No!" Everyone shook their heads.

"Daniel!" Sherry cried till her tears dried up.

William followed her, his heart was strangely hurting, he grabbed her wrist, "Sherry, don't worry, we will find him!"

It was getting dark outside, and people were going home, the helpless feeling of not seeing her child made her anxious, "Let go of me, William, let go, give me my son back, it is all your fault!"

She started to hit him and kick him, William didn't move, instead, he pulled her into his arms, "Don't cry, I will help you till we find him!"

"I want my son, I want my Daniel!" Nobody understood how important Daniel was to her, Daniel was her only backbone, if she hadn't found Daniel, she would have died long ago!

The two of them were soaking wet, and in a difficult position, the cars on the street were lessening, and Sherry felt her heart freeze, "Daniel... Daniel..."

"He doesn't want me anymore... my son doesn't want me anymore..." Sherry suddenly looked up into the rainy sky, and started to laugh, her eyes were stinging, but her heart already died, the depression spread in her, and filled it with a big hole, she felt taken back to when she was 17 and lost her brother, or when she was 18 and lost her own son...

"Why is even God walking out on me?" She cried, there were too many things she had to endure, but she didn't even know where to start anymore, her sorrowful face couldn't hide the pain.

"Sherry!" William wrapped his arm around Sherry's shoulder, so she could lean her head on his chest, only when he couldn't see her sad face, he could control himself, he regretted it, where could Daniel go on such a rainy night?

"William, you asshole, you... you asshole!" Sherry cried, like a little hurt animal, big tear drops tolled down her cheeks, she looked so helpless, so hurt, the darkness swept upon her, but all she could do was to cry, she lost her child...

Why? Why? Why was God always so mean to her? Why did he always bully her?

"Waaaaaaah..." In a dark building, a child's voice was heard, "Waaaaah, I am an orphan, I have no parents... Wahhhh!"

"My parents don't want me, waaaah!" The little face was covered in tears and snot, he had rolled himself together, and was crying silently.

"I was so good, why do they not want me?"

"Let go of me, I have to find my son!" Sherry pushed him away, and started to run.

She looked so weak in the rain, but she was so strong, William felt pain in his heart, as if thousands of needles were stinging him, all these years, she must have had such a hard life.

He suddenly wanted to tell her about Samuel, but, in that moment, he swallowed it back again, he was afraid she will hate him.

"Daniel..." Sherry screamed out of control, she looked so helpless, so pitiful.

It has been five years, Daniel and her have been sticking together for five years, there have been countless sad times, countless tears, countless satisfactions, countless happiness, countless surprises, he has long been part of her.

And what if he wasn't her birth child? She loved him! He was her son! They weren't related by blood, but she was already part of him, "Daniel! Please don't hide from me okay? I am sorry, I will never make

such jokes again!"

Sherry's tears were turning in her eyes, she could see that little face in her mind, she saw people passing on the road, a little child being held by someone, Sherry screamed panicking, "Daniel!"

When William caught up with her, she had already run to the middle of the street, she was so fast and didn't even watch out for cars.

William's heart raced fast, "Sherry!"

He could see the upcoming car didn't have the time to stop in time, it was dark and raining, the roads were slippery. William ran towards her, hugged her and rolled over, away from the car, whose breaks were squeaking. This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

"Are you tired of living?" The driver stuck his head out and yelled, he almost hit them, "Crazy idiots, if you want to die, jump out of the window!"

William shot a look to him, and he was immediately quiet.

Sherry could hear the squeaking breaks of the car, but she didn't have the time to care, she got up, not minding that she was wet all over, "Daniel, Daniel!" She ran to the child like a mad woman, "Daniel!"

"Hey, Sherry, no, that's not him!" William held her wrist, Sherry had lost herself, and scared the little child!

"Ma'am, I am sorry, I think you mistook my child for someone else!" The child's mother said to her, feeling for Sherry, she took her son and turned to leave.

No!

Sherry's heart immediately started to ache horribly.

"Sherry, don't you think we are looking at the wrong spot?" William suddenly realized, Daniel was only a child, he couldn't have run so fast! "Let's go back and search there!"

Sherry's eyes looked like a burned field, lifeless, "Daniel..."

"Let's go back!" William's voice carried a hint of worry.

Sherry already lost herself, and she allowed William to carry her into their street.

They went back to their building, but no one was to be seen, and nobody was home. They were living on ground floor, Sherry collapsed at the door, her wet hair was hanging down on the side of her face, her teeth bit into her lips, and her fists were tightly clenched into fists.

William knitted his brows, his hearing was really sharp, "Ps, keep quiet!"

Sherry looked up at him, but William had already run out.

In the building next to theirs, he could hear someone sobbing. William ran towards the voice, "Daniel? Daniel?"

The lights turned on on his yelling, and he could see Daniel curled up lying under the stairs, his tiny body was trembling, he looked so pitiful.

William's eyes stung, and his heart twitched, he lowered himself down and reached out his arms to pull Daniel to himself, holding him in his hug, "Daniel, we were only joking, you are your mother's child, look how similar you two appear!"

"Waaaah, you are lying uncle!" Daniel swallowed, "They don't want me, I am a wild child!"