My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 86

Faye didn’t know what to say anymore.

Sophia questioned again, “If you’re so great, why don’t you ask the company commander to kick me out of here immediately? Why do you still need to babble so much here?”

Faye glared at Sophia, but she was unable to refute the latter. “I…”

Right at that crucial moment, Company Commander Ford arrived. He shouted loudly, “What the heck are you people gathered around there for? Have you gathered around to eat sh*t together? Everyone, get back into your teams now! All of you have ten seconds to do so—those who are late will have to do 20 push-ups!”

After the incident with Faye, everyone looked at Sophia differently.

She is such a courageous warrior; she is actually bold enough to openly argue with an Edwards! However, what will happen after she argues with an Edwards? She’s probably doomed—she might have even dragged the entire company along with her!

However, Sophia wasn’t bothered by that; she wasn’t scared of Faye at all.

While Faye was indeed a member of the Edwards Family in Bayside City, the Edwards were an extremely large family. Besides the main branch, the family had branched into countless side branches.

For example, Faye was just one of the descendants from a side branch in the Edwards Family. In fact, Faye’s father was just an illegitimate son. Even though he was an Edwards, he was barely related to the main branch of the Edwards Family in Bayside City.

Moreover, Faye’s father was Joe. He was a seriously obese man who used to be so poor back then that he sold his illegitimate daughter to an old man as a wife for only 80,000. Sophia was that illegitimate daughter. In other words, Faye and Sophia were half-sisters who shared the same father!

Back then, Joe’s wife was pregnant when he slept with a young nanny in their household. Then, they had Sophia.

Joe was just an illegitimate son from a side branch of the Edwards Family; even if Joe was from the main branch of the Edwards Family, Sophia wasn’t afraid of him too, not to mention that he was just an illegitimate son from a side branch of the family.

What she had said earlier was true; Nathan and Joel were from the exact same family, and they were the only Fletcher Family in Bayside City.

Ever since that incident, everyone seemed to be afraid of Sophia. They were worried that she would drag them along with her to her doom after offending the Edwards.

After training ended at noon, Sophia called Nathan over and reminded him about something.

Nathan was upset after listening to Sophia and looked at her angrily.

Almost immediately, Sophia pleaded with him nicely. “Okay, Nate—be good and listen to me. Please, I beg of you. I’ll take you out and we’ll play and have fun every day when my military training is over, okay?”

Suddenly, Nathan remembered Sophia’s gaming account. Because of his plug-in, her character had massacred the entire game server and destroyed countless guilds. It became the highest number of kills ever recorded in the game.

He had managed to kill seven to eight guilds within a single day, and almost half of the online players in the entire game server were killed by him. The gaming system was so overloaded by his kills that it became unresponsive from time to time.

Now, the gaming management personnel were searching high and low for him just to kill his character, which scared Nathan a little. Since he felt sorry for that, he nodded and agreed with Sophia.

Everyone was slightly unfocused during their afternoon training; the enthusiasm and motivation everyone had previously vanished into thin air. It was all because of Sophia, who had offended the Edwards! Sooner or later, Company 49 would be doomed!

They might not even receive any scores to pass their military training! It was useless no matter how good they performed!

Company Commander Ford noticed their peculiarity too; they were still very motivated and passionate about their training a few days ago. What happened to them today?

“Look at all of you! You people look like a bunch of wimps who’ve lost their fighting spirit! Did you guys not have lunch at noon? Stand up straight, all of you!”

As a result, all of them were punished by Commander Ford. They had to stand in a military posture for half an hour, and many girls started to cry during the punishment.

It’s over. Everything’s over! Their dream to have lunch with the General was crushed. Not only that, they couldn’t even get their military credit score, and all the hard work they spent on training over the last two weeks had gone to waste!

Everyone stood there quietly without moving an inch, and their sobs could be heard.

Sophia pursed her lips tightly. She remained silent and stood there seriously.

Suddenly, everyone heard an icy male voice which pierced through the blazing sun and fell on their ears instantly. “What happened to Company 49?”

Everyone was startled as they raised their heads and saw Joel standing right in front of them; they weren’t sure when he had arrived.

The cold and aloof aura emitting from him traveled thousands of miles away and froze everything in its way, making everyone nervous as their breaths became rapid. The General is here!

Furthermore, Joel was holding a little boy’s hand. The little boy was cladded in a military uniform, and Nathan was the only child in the military camp.

The General is holding Nate’s hand! He’s actually holding Nate’s hand!

Everyone stared at Nathan, feeling extremely jealous and envious of him—how they wished they were the little boy instead.

Commander Ford stood still and gave Joel a salute when he saw him coming. Joel frowned and asked Commander Ford, “What’s going on with Company 49 today? Why do they look so depressed?”

Commander Ford reported, “Sir, it’s my responsibility that my company isn’t in good shape today!”

Joel snorted coldly. Then, he walked away while holding Nathan’s hand. He was cold and distant with everyone else, but when he talked to Nathan, the icy expression on his face disappeared as it was replaced by a warm and gentle expression.

He said in a low and gentle voice, “What would you like to eat, Nate? I’ll send someone out to bring them in for you.”

Of course, everyone else couldn’t hear their conversation—they just saw the huge difference between Joel’s treatment toward them versus Nathan.

They were surprised that Joel was so cold when he talked to them, yet he was so gentle when he talked to Nathan. Joel has such a loving side to him and can be so gentle with kids! The General actually likes Nathan so much!

Nathan had always disliked Joel before this, but for some unknown reason, he actually took the initiative to stay beside Joel today. Hence, Joel held his hand as they walked around the camp all day. They watched as everyone trained at the training field.

Then, he took Nathan to have lunch at the cafeteria which was exclusive to high-ranking officers only. At times, he would even display his affection for Nathan by holding him high up in the air.

Nathan only came back in the evening, bringing back presents of different sizes for everyone. Joel had even sent a regimental commander to escort him back to the barracks.

Everyone in the barracks of Company 49 became very excited when Nathan arrived. They surrounded him and asked him about his day excitedly. “Hey Nate, why did you spend the whole day with the General today?”

“What’s this? Who bought this for you? Was it the General who bought you this?”

“Oh my, Nate. You are so lucky! You actually had lunch with the General!”

Nathan continued to put on a cold and impassive expression on his face while being bombarded with questions from his teammates.

He replied to them with a short and simple answer, “Yeah, the General bought all of it. He asked me to give these snacks to all of you.”

The General actually bought these snacks for us! Moreover, is he giving it to us for free?!

As the girls screamed in surprise, they stared at Nathan in disbelief and asked, “Did the General mention about us?”

Nathan put on a sour face and explained, “The General said that Company 49 didn’t perform very well today. He told me to bring something back in order to cheer everyone up and motivate you guys.”

The girls screamed in excitement as they fought among themselves over the snacks brought back by Nathan. Although they were just some ordinary snacks, the girls thought they were just as delicious as those expensive cuisines as they munched on the snacks happily!

Company 49 finally became happy again after being depressed for the whole day. Suddenly, they realized that even though Sophia offended Faye, they still had Nathan in Company 49!

Judging from Nathan’s popularity, even the General liked him very much. Moreover, all the company commanders were keeping a close eye on Company 49, so even if Faye wanted to get back at Sophia, she couldn’t possibly do it in the camp too! In other words, they still had a chance to have dinner with the General!

Everyone regained their energy and confidence after enjoying their snacks. They went to bed really early. Tomorrow, they were ready to undergo their training seriously like they used to do so.

After everyone had finished their snacks, Sophia went to hug Nathan. She kissed him lovingly at the same time and said, “My adorable son, you are such a nice boy!”

Nathan continued to put on a sullen face; he felt really humiliated today. He had actually taken the initiative to fawn over Joel!

If he hadn’t accidentally turned Sophia’s Sirius233 into a homicidal maniac whom all the players wanted to kill, he wouldn’t have cast his pride aside and looked for Joel. He didn’t like Joel at all!

Still, it was extremely useful for Nathan to give up his pride and ‘sacrifice’ himself. Soon, news about Joel holding Nathan’s hand and walking around the training field went around the entire camp. Soon, Faye heard about the news too.