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."

into the room. While the girls were busy washing up in the

went off. It didn't take him long

looking for the remote control. I let out a long sigh of relief and

very obvious that Aurelia had lost her smile in the past few days. She wasn't

Freya was the one who'd practically raised her, I thought that she would have more experience on how to deal with a situation like this.

call ended, her car

was drawing circles with some dried twigs on the grass. She placed her hands on her knees and

expression made me feel relieved. Finally, there was

two minutes later, Freya returned with a hunched back. She shrugged and walked towards me, saying that there was nothing

nothing." Crossing my arms, I sighed. "You raised Oliver and yet you

explain the situation to her, then slowly coax her

always works with disapprovingly.

kids,"

Freya said

had already tried every known method to coax 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, an unexplainable feeling of

was busy looking for me while pursuing his career. Out of desperation, he raised her at

all, Hendrix and

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

that mean that we have to