Chapter 0272

AIDEN

I looked down at the small figure that was staring up at me with large, innocent eyes, a colorful children's book sprawled open on the floor between us.

"Sorry!" she waved at me and said with a small apologetic smile, her tiny hand fluttering in the air like a butterfly.

I couldn't help but smile back at her. She had a really contagious smile that seemed to light up the entire hallway.

"That's alright," I answered as I bent down to pick up the book that lay at our feet, its glossy pages slightly crumpled from the fall.

"Wow," I heard her gasp, and I looked up at her, puzzled by the sudden excitement in her voice.

"I want that kind of pen," she said with cute puppy eyes, accompanied by an adorable pout that could melt even the coldest heart.

"What kind?" I frowned as I rose to my full height and looked down at the book in my hands, turning it over, wondering where she saw a pen.

"That one," she said and pointed at my chest, her small finger almed directly at my breast pocket.

I looked down and saw the silver pen nestled in my pocket. "Oh," I hadn't even realized that I had absent-mindedly taken it from the reception hall earlier.

"You can have it." I took the pen from my pocket and handed it to her, watching as her eyes lit up with delight.

that stretched from ear to ear, her small delicate fingers wrapped around

"Thank you!" she exclaimed.

she took her book from me, cradling it against her chest. She opened the first page and wrote in it with the pen, her tongue poking out slightly in concentration. "It writes so beautifully," she

down at the 'A' she scrawled in the book with an arched brow. To be

I guess,"

me to dispute her as she scrawled

care.

added, "You should be more careful when you're walking, though, so you don't bump into people. People don't really like getting bumped

widened, amused by her sudden shift into a scolding mode.

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my fault," I countered, unable to resist

wrinkles on

way either. We both bumped into each other because we were both distracted," I explained, trying to

sassily with her brows hiked up her hairline. "I guess we are even then," she muttered as she started to

watched her walk away. I wished she would come back and talk to

of the

look back with an innocent expression. She locked gaze with me and shrugged. Then she turned and continued walking while admiring her "beautiful pen" "Amiel Get

walking

young nurse muttered under her breath as she fast walked

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