Please Take Me Home Daddy (by Mona Surrey) novel Chapter 123

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A thunderous applause followed. Then, it stopped suddenly, and the audience listened quietly to her singing.

Julia forgot all about her urge to go to the washroom and looked at Laura absurdly. “How is that possible?”

“An orphan who has better pronunciation and is singing better than me? How is that possible?” Julia pondered.

Dexter rubbed his arms as he was covered with goosebumps and exclaimed, “It’s so beautiful! That child can sing that unexpectedly well.”

Zayn didn’t answer that. He threw the headphones aside, ran onto the stage quickly, and headed straight to the piano.

He placed his slender fingers atop the piano keys.

The expressions on Antonio’s and the others‘ changed.

Jasper was stunned and said hesitantly, “He who comes from an orphanage knows how to play the piano.”

Then, the melodic music flowed out from the movement of Zayn’s fingers.

He sat there upright and straight, with the air of a prince. His gentle, lingering gaze was on Laura.

Laura stood at the front and turned to look at him.

The side of Zayn’s lips curled into a smile.

In a trance, it was as if they had returned to the old orphanage.

Laura sat in the middle of a circle of tables, performing. There was no spotlight; there was only Zayn, who sat behind her as her accompaniment.

The nanny from the orphanage would always jokingly say, “Zayn will always play the piano for Laura and her alone.”

At that time, another nanny would continue to say, “That’s right. Of course, Laura is his pet.”

Everyone would laugh then.

A flash of light glimmered in Laura’s eyes. Thinking about her memories, she became more engaged in the song, and her voice merged with Zayn’s accompaniment.

Everyone was mesmerized, looking at the two of them on stage.

Someone took out their phone to record a video of them.

The cameraman was also more diligent and earnest.

Laura performed the song in a tender and affectionate manner. Her voice was further amplified through the top–notch stereo system, making it clear and impactful to everyone’s ears.

Her voice was heavenly.

Zayn looked at her from time to time, and his eyes were full of infatuation.

The upper–grade students couldn’t help but grin from ear to ear when they saw their interaction on the big screen.

“A classic case of childhood sweethearts!”

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“Aww, that is so sweet!”

But those in the audience familiar with the two had darkened expressions, one after another.

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Jasper couldn’t believe it and exclaimed, “Zayn can really play the piano.” Then, he thought, “I know it too. But it has never occurred to me to go onto the stage to play.”

Everett clicked his tongue annoyingly and sneered, “That little girl is really good at singing”

Xander was having mixed emotions, and his frown deepened.

Antonio looked at Laura in a daze and was shocked to speechlessness.

“That child seems to be a constant surprise to me. She has a high IQ, and can sing very well. But Lilian was obviously tone- deaf. Laura has completely broken all my previous presumptions of her,” Antonio thought inwardly.

Favian had yet to recover from his surprise and murmured, “It’s incredible.”

“A new life who has bypassed all the inferior genes of her mother and even possesses the excellent talents that her mother hadn’t had before. It is as if Laura is the masterpiece created by Lilian. I can’t even look away from her,” he concluded.

Dexter looked at Zayn in disbelief, as if he had seen the lover he had lost.

Zayn’s mother was an excellent piano player, and she was a born pianist.

Zayn was unexpectedly talented as well.

On the other side, Winnie, who was sitting quietly in the audience area, had tears running down her face.

She thought of Lilian when Laura sang the first line.

At that time, Lilian was pregnant with Laura. Her eyes glimmered with hopeful expectations as she touched her belly and said, “Sometimes I, too, will delude myself that I’ll have an excellent daughter.”

Lilian would smile at Winnie and continue to say, “If she can be like you and inherit all our merits – yours, Antonio’s, and mine. She will be the most versatile girl I have nurtured in my belly. She’ll have secret identities, just like those in the

novels.”

Lilian’s eyes gradually became gentle as she spoke, “Most importantly, she must be like you to have a nightingale–like, perfect voice. She can have everything I haven’t had before and stand in the spotlight where everyone can see her.”

Winnie covered her mouth, looked at Laura in the spotlight, and muffled her cry silently.

Laura stood on the stage with closed her eyes, and reluctantly sang the last note,

“Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there. He once was a true love of mine”

She smiled and bowed to everyone when she finished the song.

The hall was quiet for a moment. Suddenly, there was thunderous applause.

“Bravo!”

“You sang so well!”

Someone even whistled.

Winnie was the most excited of them all. She stood up, crying and laughing at the same time. And she could not stop

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“Can you see that, Lilian? Your daughter possesses everything you wanted to give her, as you expected. She is shining like a gem,” Winnie thought.

Antonio stared at Laura as if she were an angel.

Jasper suddenly came to his senses and stated. “I don’t seem to have recorded it.”

Xander glanced at him coldly and said, “What is there to record for?”

Everett took out his phone and said, “I’ve recorded it.”

The two brothers looked at him in astonishment. “What?”

He said with an innocent face, “What are you talking about? Why don’t you let me record it? That is a video, but I didn’t record Zayn.”

Jasper said, “Oh, then send it to me now.”

Xander remained speechless.

Laura hopped off the stage, came to the homeroom teacher, and said happily, “I’ve finished my task, Ms. Cortez.”

Ava was smiling ear to ear and could not contain her excitement.

She had not expected Laura to be so much better than Julia. In retrospect, Julia seemed to pale in comparison.

Julia’s face was green with envy, and she shouted, “You dared to steal my show. How dare you?”

“And she sang better than I did,” she thought sourly.

Laura asked incredulously, “Didn’t you have diarrhea? That’s why I went on stage. If you hadn’t had diarrhea, I wouldn’t have gone up to sing.”

Julia was teary–eyed, and she was filled with anguish. “I don’t care. It was you who stole what’s mine.”

Then, she reached out with the intention of pushing Laura.

Laura decisively did a backflip while saying, “Ha! You can’t reach me.”

Julia stood in a stupor. She was so flustered and exasperated that she gave it another try.

Zayn blocked in front of Laura, gripped Julia’s hand firmly and said challengingly, “Do you dare to try again?”

Julia trembled with fear. She scowled and complained, “Mom! Zayn bullied me! He is so scary.”

Zayn looked at her calmly and condescendingly.

Miriam Lowery, Julia’s mother, came rushing to protect her child and said angrily, “How can you do that to my daughter? It’s all your fault. You took away my daughter’s performance!”

Zayn sneered, ‘It’s your daughter, the loser, who decided to have diarrhea on stage. We saved the day for you. If it weren’t for us, you would be a useless idiot”

Miriam was shocked. “Are you referring to us?”

Zayn raised his eyebrows. Taron and others walked over, having seen that he was in trouble. They stood behind him with great agility, formed a row, and looked at Miriam covetously.

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Zayn stood in the middle, holding Laura’s with one hand, and exuded a terrifying aura about him when he asked, “You dare

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