"Sure! I love eating whatever you cook, Rose." Yerick hauled Steve up and cradled him in his arms. "Hey, little guy! Do you miss me?"

Steve suddenly raised a hand and hit Yerick's cheek in disdain, as if trying to push him away.

Yerick frowned. "Why did you hit me? Are you allowed to bully others just because you're small?"

Steve laughed and hit him again.

"Stevie, what are you doing?" Rosalie approached them. "No hitting. That's no good."

If he picked up the bad habit of hitting others even before he turned one, it would only get worse as he grew older.

"I think Stevie likes me. Children are often bolder around people they feel closer to. It's fine, he can hit me a few more times." Yerick didn't mind it at all. Steve was just an infant, so what did he have to fear? Would Steve devour him? Yerick lifted Steve high, and Steve chuckled gleefully.

"Have fun, you guys. I'll go prepare the food," Rosalie said.

Yerick looked around him. "Rose, where is he?"

knew who Yerick was referring to. "He had something to

is that so? But Rose, how did you two get to know each other? He looks so

to know in Melrine. He's a good man, don't

glanced shiftily around the place. "Seems like you quite

a deliberate question. She quickly put the bags down in the kitchen and said, "We're friends and he's very good to me. I treat him well too, as I do you,

him only as a

my friends, and I treat all of

"I want you to be biased toward me.

Rosalie didn't take him seriously. Yerick was a few years younger than her and still a boy to her.

was unlike being with

a little awkward. Both of them looked at her with such fiery and begrudging eyes,

she didn't feel much pressure-perhaps because she could

it again after a few years," Rosalie said. "You're still young and have plenty

I see many women

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