When Hertha caught a glimpse of her darling's eyes, a mirror image of Alaric's, and saw the soft, chubby cheeks framed in innocence and childlike wonder, her heart swelled with love. But then, in a flash, her smile vanished, replaced by a wave of panic and dread.

Her little one blinked her big, round eyes and looked up at Helena with serious intent. Crouching down to eye level, Hertha said with gravity, "Alaric is a stranger, sweetie. I don't know him, and you have nothing to do with him. Mommy won't mention that man again, okay?"

Hertha spoke with a firm seriousness, and Thalassa barely held back a laugh.

Wasn't Hertha spilling the beans here?

Fortunately, her two little treasures were just two years old, still blissfully unaware and far from the child prodigies that Thalassa's four munchkins were. Otherwise, any bright child could have pieced together the man's identity from Hertha's words alone, 'you have nothing to do with him.'

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voice, "Mommy, you should

Mommy happy too!" Julian chimed in, clutching a toy as he

the two little ones, Hertha's heart melted. She caressed their soft heads with tender affection, her lips curving into a smile as she said, "As long as

by your side, as your little angels!" Julian and

endearing expressions were like those of two little penguins, utterly adorable, making

going to have a chat with Aunt Thalassa, so you scamps go on and play," Hertha

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Thalassa, her expression serious. "It's good you stopped Alaric in time, or he

you lived?"

time at the Starhaven Hotel? I bumped into him, and he offered to drive me home. I refused, but he followed me

sensed something different in Alaric's behavior, as though he wasn't just toying around. "Serious about me? He's engaged and still wants to mess around with me.

of Alaric and Georgia together in bed three years ago. It was an eternal

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