"In a few days?" Maisie's surprise grew.

She thought the child might come from a divorced family, and the woman probably meant that she would find a stepfather for him in a few days.

Maisie felt for the child, who seemed quiet and timid. Since he arrived, he hadn't said a word.

Now, she realized it was because he lacked his biological father's protection.

With this in mind, Maisie smiled at the boy. However, James suddenly fixed his gaze on her, his beautiful amber eyes displaying an unexpected coldness for his age.

Maisie shivered, taken aback by such a gaze coming from a child.

"Ms. Squire?" The woman gently stroked James' head. "Isn't my son adorable?"

"Oh..." Maisie snapped back to reality and managed a smile. "Yes, he's very handsome and cute."

listen to Ms. Squire from

shake the feeling that she saw a hint of a mocking smirk on the

contact information? In case there's an emergency with

woman provided

her, she smiled cryptically and said, "My future husband's last

Bayer?" Maisie

felt something was amiss, like a heavy weight on her chest, making her uncomfortable. But then, she considered there were millions of people in Centrolis, and there was more than one family with the

it was just

being too

hand, and smiled politely. "You can rest

was far from an ordinary

kindergarten, Maisie received more than

very unusual child. No matter what the teachers said

language barrier. After all, he was a mixed-race child who had grown up abroad. It

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