With difficulty, I suppressed the fear of being kicked to death by him in the previous life and answered the phone.
His barrage of curses came through. "Damn you, Zoey, why aren't you taking care of Bennett? My wife is pregnant, and she's precious. Can you take responsibility if anything happens?"
Hearing him mention pregnancy, I thought of my poor unborn child.
All my fear turned to anger. "What the hell responsibility? I'm not the one who got your wife pregnant. Were your ancestors chefs? You're so good at passing the buck."
"How can you say that? Weren't you the one taking care of him before? You can't just say you're not going to anymore. You're so unreliable."
"Are Bennett's parents dead? How dare you talk to me about reliable?"
"Anyway, taking care of children is women's business. How can a man like me take care of a child?"
I was almost laughing with anger. "There's no reasoning with you. If you don't like it, go ahead and sue me."
Unable to do anything about me, he threatened viciously. "I'm telling you, you're Bennett's aunt. Mom is old, and Naomi is pregnant. From now on, Bennett is belonged to you! If anything happens, I'll come after you and make sure you pay!"
"That's hilarious. It seems you've outsourced both filial piety and pampering your wife. How dare you."
After saying that, I hung up the phone and blocked him.
"This guy is really sick! His wife wanders around freely, expecting me to be their nanny and take care of their child. When I refuse, he even threatens me.
No, I have to get away from this crazy family immediately!"
Today, without taking Bennett, my work was much easier. After work, I even had the energy to try the new trendy restaurant downstairs with Johnson.
We hit it off and decided to move out of the house as soon as possible and return to our one-bedroom apartment.
Johnson was very happy with my change and wholeheartedly agreed.
In the previous life, I always advised him that we were all family, and since he was a boy, it didn't hurt to give in to his sister more.
Living again, I realized how pathetic I had been.
After talking with the tenant, it turned out his lease was up, and he didn't want to renew. We could move back in about a week.
When we were satisfied and arrived at the rental house, we found that Bennett had caused a big problem.