My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Anne pretended to get up and look at Aurelia seriously, "If you insist on waiting for Neal, then he'll be separated from his parents. In this case, maybe we might also be separated from mommy and daddy

tomorrow. Are you sure you want that?"

"No I don't!" Aurelia cried out. "I don't want that! I don't want that! I don't want that..."

Wiping away her tears, she then reached out to hug Anne. "I'll go to bed now, I don't want to leave mommy and daddy!"

"All right!"

Anne picked up Aurelia and secretly winked at me. She then comforted her as they went upstairs.

As I watched them disappear up the stairs, I brought myself to ask Hendrix.

"Mr. Roberts, where is your dignity as the head of the family? You should know your principles as a parent and as a father. So why did you retreat when faced with a minor problem like that?"

He brought his thumb and forefinger close together. He gestured to show how close he was to something.

Hendrix leaned back and looked down at my hand. He smiled and said, "It's a minor problem for you, but that's not the case for me. I've tried so hard to get close to Aurelia for a very long time. I can't let all that effort go to waste."

After a brief pause, he pulled my hand away and approached me. He deliberately lowered his tone and narrowed his eyes. "Besides, who say I'm the head of this family?" "You rogue."

and ran back into the room. While the girls were busy washing up in the bathroom, I quickly found the remote control on the bed and hid it in my closet before I then laid down on bed, feeling very at

his hands around after the lights went off. It didn't take him long to start searching around for the remote

long sigh of relief

few days. She wasn't interested in her food anymore and she would be gloomy all day long. She wasn't even as

Freya was the one who'd practically raised her, I thought that she would have more experience on how to deal

hour after our call ended, her

Freya went straight to Aurelia, who was drawing circles with some dried twigs on the grass. She placed her hands on

made me feel relieved. Finally, there

with a hunched back. She shrugged and walked towards

my arms, I sighed. "You raised Oliver and yet you can't deal with Aurelia? What did you

to her,

always works with disapprovingly.

kids,"

Freya said

her out of it. If those methods had worked, she wouldn't even be here in the first place. Looking at how lonely Aurelia was,

side growing up, she would have been able to have normal friends, instead of Aaron who was busy looking for me while pursuing his career. Out of desperation, he raised her at home and treated her like a princess. If all of that hadn't happened,

Hendrix and I owed

by it. There's always a way. As the old saying goes, whoever starts

that mean that we have to bring