Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 142

“If only every morning could start with brushing my teeth together with Natalie side by side.” Nate thought.

Natalie rinsed her mouth. Right on cue, Nate set down his toothbrush cup and pouted his cherubic face towards her, waiting for his morning face cleaning.

As she dabbed his rosy cheeks, Natalie was reminded of the first time she met Nate. He could barely string a full sentence together without stumbling over his words.

“You’re getting so smart, Nate,” she said with a warm, encouraging smile.

Sadie, who was bringing in a basket of laundry, overheard from the next room and chimed in, “Nate is indeed getting more talkative. Kids just soak up language like sponges.”

Nate, taking the conversation seriously, responded without hesitation. “I don’t like talking to them, and they don’t like talking to me.”

Was ‘them‘ a reference to the people of the Howard family?

in a love–deprived environment often had

Madelyn neither wanted him nor

speaking more fluidly and becoming quite the

Nate was

momentarily, then continued cleaning his face with a gentle smile, saying, “Soon, no one at preschool

a late talker. In every other way, he’s exceptionally clever…” Sadie added from the next room, though her voice trailed off.

room fell silent. Sadie felt awkward as she stood by the door, while Natalie finished helping Nate with his morning routine and dressed

her with a

Brian himself, would compare Nate to Natalie as a child. Although Nate was the spitting image of Brian,

and Sadie, yet he should have had a temperament more like

without even mentioning Natalie, just by observing Nate’s every move

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of who brought him into this

hours on end. She believed that what people saw on the