Love Unspoken

Quinn's eyes lit up as he stared at the distant black ship. "Is that Maddox and the others?"

Alexander squinted, but it was too far to see clearly. He could only tell it was a ship.

Kyle heard the conversation and quickly ran over, exclaiming, "Does it feel like they're here? How dare they sail in this weather!" Quinn turned to look at him. "Are you sure that's Maddox?"

Kyle replied, "Isn't it coming in our direction? Who else could it be? Mrs. Kennedy, should we get ready to board?"

Quinn hesitated. "Let's wait until they disembark."

'Just because they arrived safely in this weather doesn't mean they can return safely right away,' Quinn thought.

It took almost forty minutes for the ship to get close, and Quinn's legs were weak by then.

Seeing people disembark, she immediately ran down the path to the beach.

As expected, it was Maddox and the others, with Sean among them. They were happy to see Quinn, and Maddox strode over to her. "Quinn!"

Quinn's face was filled with joy and worry. "Why did you come now? It could rain heavily at any moment."

Maddox replied, "No worries. We checked; it won't rain for the next eight hours, so we set off early. We made it safely. Did you bring Sprout and Brandy?" Quinn replied, "Yes, they're inside."

Maddox grinned. "I'll go see them! It's been so long; I wonder how Sprout has grown."

He quickly walked past Quinn towards the village.

Quinn smirked. Why did it feel like he was more interested in Sprout and Brandy than in her?

Sprout and

to see Sprout and Brandy?"

so considerate, but given Maddox's eager

children, one in each arm. Sprout stared at him curiously with big eyes, while Brandy looked timid and a bit scared. Maddox nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad. Do you two know

shook her

and when he couldn't, he reached out to

until Sprout had a firm grip on

glared at

him or not, he seemed to get the tone and grabbed his hair

quickly calling

Maddox trying to pry Sprout's hands off

I'll hit you?"Sprout mumbled something, and it didn't sound

"What's

"He said you're a bad guy and he'll

He was so small that Maddox could hurt him with

but their familial bond stopped him. Maddox, grimacing, glanced at Alexander. "Alexander! Get your

seeing Sprout, Maddox now looked as annoyed as

unmoved. "He likes you and

about to be torn off! Get him

and quickly put Brandy down to help. She patted Sprout's hand. "Sprout, let go.

glared at Maddox,

along from the start. She thought Sprout and Alexander were already troublesome enough, but he and Maddox were even worse. Sprout feared Alexander but not Maddox, so he was even more unruly

to pry Sprout's hands off Maddox's hair. Maddox, fixing

kid is so arrogant at this age. What will he