Daven: His lost memories

Chapter 9: Granny Tae's past

Granny Tae is was once a commander in chief of her own army in another country before she chose to resign after she heard about her husband's death after she abandoned them when she was given options to choose between her family and her work position after their daughter, kaylen, died in a car crash.

This led to a big family fight as her husband and her other two children blamed her for Kaylen's death as she was not always home to spend time with them and she was always working far away from home and didn't even visit them on holidays.

Her husband gave her options that it's either she resign her position and gives it to someone else, if not, then she will no longer be considered part of the family and he will divorce her.

Because Granny Tae was always taught when growing up to chase success first and she worked hard to be where she was, she ended up making a decision that she now regrets.

After excluding herself from her family, two years later she resigned after she finds out about her husband's death which made her realize a lot about the choice she made. She resigned and gave her position to someone else and went to look for her two children. It didn't go quite well as they still hated her for leaving them.

She tried to beg for forgiveness, but they made it clear that they want nothing to do with her. So she went and got herself a simple house and distanced herself from people she knew and never contacted her children again. Even after she heard that her late daughter kaylen had a child before she died, she still didn't bother herself to look for the child as she assumed that the child might also want nothing to do with her.

After being lonely and living alone for years in the isolated neighborhood, she meets a young couple which she always regarded them as her children and changed her lonely and depressed life.

She watched them grow and get married, the thought she gave up for her children that wanted nothing to do with her.

The young couple were none other than Brittney and Daven. She can say that she has witnessed their love for each other and were meant to be together as they suited each other. Now she is living a normal life she had never thought of having when she was busy at the military. She loves it very much living like this and wished that she discovered this type of life earlier before things ended up where they are now.

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After listening to her story, Daven was getting a little hooked when he finds out that Granny Tae was once in military before. To him it was something he always respected and liked. Now his head was filled with many questions, but before he could even open his mouth to ask, he was interrupted by Brittney.

" I'm sorry to hear that happened to you Granny Tae, I'm sure they will find it in their hearts one day and forgive you." her soft soothing voice along with her glittery eyes were so possessing making her look adorable.

Daven just huffed softly and looked away from her. ' Just great! So you rudely interrupted me just to say these few boring words? ' He silently complained in his mind staring gloomily at the food.

He didn't want to wait until the topic is changed so he quickly asked," Why did you not go back into the force after you were left alone? "

Brittney didn't want them to continue this topic anymore as it might bring some bad memories to Granny Tae. So she picked up a cookie that was brought by Granny Tae and deliberately said, " Mmhh... Granny Tae, how do you make these? They test so amazing."

Hearing Brittney complimenting her cookies, she forgets about Daven's question and focused on Brittney.

" Oh thank you my darling. The recipe is quite simple. When you have time, I'll teach you."

Daven was burning inside with anger. If it not for Granny Tae, he would have slapped her already.' Britannia..Brittney... whatever your name is. I have stayed with you for more than a day and you already such a migraine!? ' Daven would have exploded long ago if it was in the past, now he has to maintain his temper.

He reluctantly given up asking and took a small bite of a cookie Brittney was bragging about. Slowly chewing, his eyes widens in shock as the cookie tasted good. More like nothing good he has tasted before. It gave him a feeling of nostalgia and somewhat a familiar feeling but when searching in his memories, nothing came up of him eating these cookies before.

Immediately, he stuffed it all inside his mouth and picked up another one.

Brittney and Granny Tae watched him silently with smiles all over their faces.

When he was about to take another one cookie, a soft hand suddenly slapped his own.

" Ouch! " He quickly pulls it back and frowns.

Brittney moves the plate of cookies far away from him so that he cannot reach them. " Don't eat too much unless you want to have an upset stomach."

' Pff! now she wants to be my mom.' He rolled his eyes and looked at the cookies with a pitiful expression.

Granny Tae laughed heartily when she saw his pitiful look. With his handsome face, it matched well. " Aww how adorable you look."

Just as Brittney was getting up to put away the cookies, her phone rang in the sitting room.

" Excuse me."

She answered the phone in a light tone. " Hello "

At the table, Daven felt more relaxed with Granny Tae forgetting that 30 minutes ago he considered her as an outsider.

" Granny Tae, How many children do you have? "

" Two... plus kaylen makes it 3 "

" Oh "