Chapter 127 A Little Brother or Sister

Caleb was stuck between a rock and a hard place, unable to defend himself. After all, they were the ones who tried to set Alistair up first. He couldn't throw Alistair under the bus without dragging Brady and the screenwriter into the mess too.

Brady had already warned them. If he or that female colleague couldn't keep their mouths shut, they'd be kicked out of New York for good!

And now Caleb had gone viral online again, for all the wrong

reasons.

When Celeste heard her once-prideful son had become a laughingstock, she literally fainted on the spot.

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"Daddy, why are you showering so early today?" Eloise asked, her big, curious eyes fixed on Alistair.

Alistair gave her a deadpan look. "I accidentally stepped in dog poop while I was out."

"What?" Eloise's eyes grew even wider. "Dog poop?"

"Yep," Alistair said with a completely straight face.

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What else could you call Caleb and that young woman but dog poop? And then there was Brady. That old fox managed to walk away completely unscathed.

The truth was, that woman never even got close to Alistair.

Though whatever perfume she'd been wearing had given Alistair a splitting headache. His clothes probably still reeked of that awful

smell.

He lifted his sleeve and took a sniff.

Looking down, he found Eloise leaning in close. She sniffed the air around him very carefully for a moment before announcing in her sweet little voice, "Don't worry, Daddy. You don't smell like poop."

Alistair couldn't help but laugh at her innocent concern.

"But you should probably take a shower anyway," Eloise continued. "I can't smell anything, but Mommy might. If she finds out you accidentally stepped in poop today, she'll feel really bad for you."

felt a warmth spread through his chest. "So does that mean Eloise feels bad

why you need

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walk by yourself. Don't

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"by yourself" part of her statement.

see the path clearly," she explained thoughtfully. After a moment, she added, "Daddy, you don't have to watch the ground when you're with me. But when I'm

you too, but she's usually really busy and sometimes has to answer all

with absolute seriousness, making the two little bun-shaped pigtails her preschool teacher

but scoop up Eloise and lift her high in

Eloise burst into giggles.

said, "Go read your

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Eloise nodded enthusiastically, grabbed her book, and skipped off

sunroom.

there. Whenever she had free time, she'd hop on

and forth while reading.

soap and followed up with two rounds of shower gel, practically

way to the bright sunroom and settled into the couch, content to simply be

pattered over to snuggle up

bright, lively eyes. "A lot of kids in my class have brothers and sisters. I want

"Did

you

her little mind struggling to follow

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change in topic. "Great-Grandma? She tells me lots of things. She said Nugget likes me and

over, she'll

rattled off a long list of things on her fingers, but never mentioned Mabel asking if she wanted a little

was using Eloise to pressure them into

overthinking things. Kids that young usually wouldn't have such calculated intentions.

the topic with her. "So, would you rather

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