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.

to ear, her small delicate fingers

"Thank you!" she exclaimed.

the first page and wrote in it with the pen, her tongue poking out slightly in concentration. "It writes so beautifully," she muttered, seeming mesmerized by the glide of the ink on her

in the book with an arched brow. To be honest, there was

I guess,"

me to dispute her as she scrawled another curve

care.

she added, "You should be more careful when you're walking, though, so you don't

automatically widened, amused by her sudden shift into a scolding mode. So this little

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fault," I countered, unable to resist

creating little wrinkles on her

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

shoulders sassily with her brows hiked up her hairline. "I guess we are

walk away. I wished she would come back and talk to me more. Even if it was to

as I turned, a young nurse who stood at the end of the hall with a

turned back to see Amie look back with an innocent expression. She locked gaze with me

she saw the nurse walking toward

kid is a handful," the young nurse muttered under her breath as she fast

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