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.

held a strong influence.

rest of the girls here, in terms of my favor. If it had been proper for me to do so, I

though she had no

like Mommy, why can’t you be my daddy?”

face went red.

n sorry →→

concern. “I’m not

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

were outside factors at play here. A crown and a throne, not least among them.

said. “But there are reasons,

tucked her chin down to her

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joke. “You are still my little princess though, no matter what happens.”

now. She was still crying, but I

smile.

smiled as well. “Hear that, Elva? You

me again.

nodded, and suddenly had an armful of Elva, as she flung herself at me. Piper continued to rub her back

wife, and Elva as my child. My

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

cheery little sight,” said a gruff male voice from behind

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