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Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Sweet as Sugar
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The children all began to cheer once Edrick agreed to stay longer so that we could make cookies. I lifted my gaze from Clara to see the Alpha billionaire standing in front of me, but he wasn’t looking at me; he was looking at the children.

We all made our way down to the kitchen. I lingered at the back of the group, still in utter shock as I tried to wrap my head around Edrick’s sudden change in demeanor. Had the tour of the orphanage and seeing how disadvantaged children lived given him a bit of compassion?

Once we were in the kitchen, I put on an apron and started to get out the ingredients to make the cookies while the children watched hungrily, licking their lips in anticipation for the sweet taste of sugar in their mouths.

“Do you like to bake, Mr. Morgan?” Clara asked, standing on her tiptoes as she gripped the edge of the counter to see.

“No,” Edrick replied, avoiding eye contact with the little girl. “I don’t.”

“Not even cookies?”

“No, not even cookies,” Edrick said. Then, in a slightly lower voice: “I’ve never baked anything.”

The children erupted into gasps, causing me to stifle a laugh. “Here,” I said, grabbing an extra apron and tossing it to Edrick. “I’ll teach you.” Edrick caught the apron and gave me a puzzled look while the children exploded with a chorus of giggles.

“I think I’d just mess it up,” he replied. “You can do it.”

which all of the children began to protest

it almost seemed as though he was holding back a smile. He shrugged off his suit jacket and put the apron on, coming over to me. Without thinking, I reached out and rolled his sleeves up for him.

gonna kiss!” Now, the group’s cries of protest

stepped away from Edrick, shaking my head as I felt my face get hot. Next, I showed Edrick which

two cups of flour into this bowl,” I said, “and the baking

them to roll

have taken a liking to him, which

Edrick asked as he rolled a ball

you have

“I do,” Edrick replied.

a moment, sticking her tongue out to the side a bit as she focused on rolling a wa d of cookie dough into a misshapen ball between her tiny hands, then slapped it down on the tray with an unprecedented amount of force for such a small girl. Then, she turned toward Edrick and looked up

mouth to speak, but the words didn’t seem

Sophia interjected from across the room, “That’s

dug

unexpected honesty in his eyes. “My dad doesn’t always think that boys should do the same things that girls do,” he

and the girls to play however they wanted and to try new things. I grew up not only baking and doing traditionally feminine things, but I also had

raw cookie dough in his mouth, suddenly spoke up. “That’s dumb,” he said, his voice garbled

Elliot!” I shouted, running after the

children erupted into laughter again. When I looked up, I saw that Edrick was laughing,

…

the children were happily stuffing their chocolate-covered faces. Sophia led Edrick and I to the

the world to us. We’ve really been struggling lately — the government isn’t so generous with their money when it

reached out and squeezed Sophia’s arm. Edrick fell silent and appeared to be thinking, his

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