Chapter 0145

Elva wiped her nose with her sleeve. Her eyes fixed on me, she asked, “But what about Mommy?”

“Oh, sweetie,” Piper said. “We’ve talked about this.”

“You like her more than Mommy?”

“I’m sorry,” Piper said to me.

I shook my head. “No. I don’t like her more than your mom.”

I looked at Piper and found her looking back at me with wide eyes. Had she thought something different? Surely she knew how Lilliana was. And out of everyone here, she would know what I truly desired in a partner.

“What’s your favorite color, Piper?”

She seemed surprised, but still answered, “Green.”

Lilliana could not hold a candle to Piper.

I

I refused to believe that I still held romantic feelings for Piper. If I felt anything more than friendship at any moment, it was likely I was only remembering how I used to feel when we had been dating.

a

miles ahead of the rest of the girls here, in terms of my favor. If it had been proper for me to do so, I would have claimed her as

had no desire to be

said. “If you like Mommy, why can’t you

went red.

n sorry →→

waved off her concern. “I’m

everything must have seemed so simply. If two people liked each other, then they should be together. It made sense, if nothing else in the world mattered.

A crown and a throne, not least

said. “But

tucked her chin down to her

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a joke. “You are still my little

She was still crying, but I

smile.

well. “Hear that, Elva?

at me again. “Yeah?”

and suddenly had an armful of Elva, as she flung herself at me. Piper continued to rub her back as Elva buried her face into my shoulder.

my family, with Piper as my wife, and Elva as

was such a beautiful little dream, that for the full length of that moment, it stole my

said a gruff male

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