Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 553

After a brief hesitation, Mila accepted the apron, looping it around Forrest and tying the straps behind him with gentle hands. She didn't step away afterward, instead staying close, occasionally handing him utensils or ingredients as he cooked.

The sound of running water mixed with the soft murmur of their conversation.

When Forrest asked where Adrian had been during the day, Mila couldn't help but chide him, "Next time, please don't take him to the Federal Security Bureau. Even aside from the project, that place is highly classified. It's not appropriate.”

It was a government project, after all.

A child might not know any better, but surely the adults did.

It was just reckless.

Forrest continued scrubbing the pot, his hands covered in suds, but he still replied, "Don't worry, I know where the lines are. It was a sudden situation—l couldn't just leave him alone. The excuse I came up with was hasty, and that's on me. I really shouldn't promise things I can't follow through on. Even if it's just a child, they take things so seriously... I'll go apologize to him later."

"Sorry you had to deal with this." Mila hesitated for a moment. "He must have been a handful today, wasn't he?"

She knew Adrian's temperament all too well.

"It wasn't so bad," Forrest replied with a warm smile, handing her the freshly washed pot. "He's my responsibility. If I can't look after him properly, what does that say about me? Besides, Adrian's just a bit willful-he's actually pretty adorable."

Then he tilted his head, smiling a little more mischievously. "And at dinner, you were defending me, weren't you?"

caught off

avoiding his eyes as she set it on the rack. "I just... didn't want to see you two like that. I have my own thoughts on the matter. I can't

help but

just bumped her arm lightly. "Sorry for worrying you. I'll figure

close that Mila could see how the kitchen's stark white light played over Forrest's handsome features, glinting off his hair, catching the edge of his glasses, sliding down his high-bridged

but not harsh at

to make her feel safe and

realizing she'd been staring when she caught herself and

Damn it.

didn't have much

Some kinds of beauty, the sharp, poisonous kind-like sugar laced with venom-only made her recoil. Lysander Montgomery came to mind, and just

of the surveillance and stress from earlier that

was hard to shake off that sense of

little shake, trying to scatter the day's worries. The

seemed to get louder, and she found

to Forrest at the

Forrest didn't notice.

just found out-l thought you should know. Word got around at the company about me bringing Adrian in, and

I've already had my assistant step in and clarify things in the group chat. I'll delete the

were never a