My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 111

Because Michael had various and numerous people on his Messenger, he had them divided into different categories. He had a category each for the Fletchers, for his entertainment circle, for acquaintances, for his gay friends, and for private matters.

The Fletchers would never see the posts he made while his entertainment circle only ever saw the occasional photos he uploaded of his filming location. These days, his gay friends and family members were seeing photos of his young bride whom he had hastily gotten married to.

It was obvious that Stanley was put in the Fletchers category because he still did not know that Michael had a young bride. Otherwise, he would not have had the courage to approach his woman.

Michael tapped on the screen and replied, ‘Eat sh*t!’

In contrast, for people whom she was not close with, she used their full names. For example, Richard Harper or Harry Winston.

Michael searched for his name on her Messenger to see what name she gave him.

He searched for ‘Husband’ but nothing came up.

Neither was there anything for ‘Darling’ or ‘My Dear’.

He went straight to her close friends’ list, only to find himself listed as ‘Pervert’.

At least ‘Pervert’ is better than nothing!

Sundae Cone sent another message, ‘Come. Let’s go to the film crew next door and watch them film!
 

Michael replied once again, ‘Go to h*ll.’

Then, he saw Richard Harper desperately sending messages to her, ‘Sophia, why is your phone turned off?’

‘I’m not hoping for anything else. I just want to talk to you.’

Followed by several over-a-minute-long voice messages.

With his big hand, Michael deleted every one of the messages.

After that, he went into her photo album. They were all photos of Nathan; Nathan sleeping, Nathan eating, Nathan biting into a popsicle. All of which she took over a dozen of; even when he rolled his eyes, she captured it.

She clearly loved his son more than him.

Michael looked for a bit then took off his coat and lay down.

Upon seeing that, Nathan quickly climbed over and sandwiched his small body between the both of them. He had his back toward Sophia while he faced Michael with a stern expression.

He must be secretly thinking of putting a baby sister in Sophia’s tummy!

The both of them had a staring competition.

After a while, Nathan fell asleep first. Once he was sound asleep, Michael immediately tossed him aside and took Sophia into his arms, and fell asleep.

She was soft and had a nice smell, making her comfortable to hug to sleep.

As he hugged her, she was already fast asleep and could not open her eyes at all. In her dream, she thought she was hugging a doll and her arms reached out to wrap around his waist.

Sophia was dead-asleep. A couple of days ago, she dreamt of a meat blanket with two grapes. She dreamt of that meat blanket again tonight but it had two sweet cherries on top of it now.

The sweetness overflowed; she could almost taste it.

The next day in the film crew, Michael got his makeup done without his shirt on. The scene today required him to expose his upper body so they had to cover him up well.

The makeup artist carefully applied makeup on his youthful body that was perfectly sculptured like the statue of David. At a glance, bite marks were seen on the left and right sides of his chest.

When he got his makeup done the day before yesterday, there was only one bite mark on his left side. But now, there were additional ones. During those two days, Michael did not return to his hotel room at night and was said to have worked with Ethan Winston on his script.

The makeup artists, stylists, and staff on the film crew were all flushed in the face.

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After a day of getting used to things, Sophia, who was on her third day with the Superb Company, had already grasped the skill and intensity of the Superb Company’s training.

During the morning trail run, she ran at a very quick pace and was always at the front, leaving all the other girls behind her.

When she was little, she enjoyed running all over the place in her village. Her grandparents had several acres of wheat and corn, but because they were not fit enough to bring in the harvest, she was always running up and down the hills by herself with the harvest.

After they passed away, she was adopted into her uncle’s family where she did all sorts of strenuous work.

When she started school, she spent her time after school sending buckets of water to every floor. But the burdensome task was nothing to her when she could make five cents for every bucket.

Even though she was running at the front today, Stanley was still able to run alongside her and tease her, “Oh my, Sophia. Did you eat beef today? Look at how fast you’re running!”

She did not respond to him and kept up with her outstanding performance for the rest of the day.

For no reason at all, Stanley would come and bother her. “Sophia, what’s your relationship with Nate? Are you the nanny his family hired? Or bodyguard?”

“How can they hire someone as weak as you to be a bodyguard? Has Uncle been short on money recently? How did they end up with a newbie like you becoming their bodyguard?”

“Are you bodyguards entitled to the five types of insurance and the housing fund?”

Regarding his questions, she kept refusing to answer them.

The Superb Company’s training was dull and strenuous, but Sophia was slowly getting used to it. If Stanley did not hover around her like a fly, she would have been more comfortable.

Stanley was very headstrong indeed. Even during the tactical combat training, he looked like he was in a normal classroom setting and found time to have small talk with her.

“Sophia, you’ve been a soldier before. Is it worthwhile for you to come back here and train with us students?”

She knocked him down in a flash then sneered at him as she wiped off her sweat.

Laying on the ground, he huffed, “Sigh. What does this make me? My uncle was so great!” He stood up and wiped off his sweat. “My uncle was only 19 when he became the military training instructor for the freshmen at Bayside University!

Who knew he would be discharged after that?” While he was talking, he started another match with Sophia. “Can you guess what happened after that?”

Her ears perked up. The uncle he’s talking about is Michael, isn’t it?

He seized the chance when she was not paying attention to knock her to the ground. Pressing down on her back, he said, “My uncle took the national exam again after he was discharged and entered Bayside University as the top student of his year. Then, he became a freshman at Bayside University and started his military training!” Stanley laughed.

She was speechless. “You Fletchers sure know how to fool around.”

He kept her pressed down. “Call me Big Brother Stanley.”

“Bah!”

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In a blink of an eye, the military training was coming to an end. Soon, it was going to be the brutal end-of-term field training exercise.

Sophia remembered that in high school, the instructor had brought the group of freshmen on a five to six-hour hike for their field training exercise.

At Bayside University, they also had to go on a hike for their field training exercise but without the instructor. The students were given a day to go over the whole forest. They set out during the day and those who did not make it back by dark would fail.

A regular student’s field training exercise was very easy. It was a straight and even road ahead that was not too dangerous. Moreover, other units often came to the barracks to train.

All the trails had been previously traversed on and there were even people living in the mountains who set up villages and vendors along the way. The only difficulty was that the journey was too long and those who moved slowly had no choice but to receive a zero because they could not catch up.

However, the Superb Company’s training was more brutal. The trails in their field training exercise had never been tested out for any dangers before and it was an old virgin forest. There were no signs of people living there but there were a lot of snakes and potentially some wild animals.