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?

that a child who grew up in a love–deprived environment often had

Natalie fit this description. Moreover, Madelyn neither wanted him nor showed him affection.

mood had improved. He was speaking more fluidly and becoming

was trying

cleaning his face with a gentle smile, saying, “Soon, no one

say Nate is slow like a little mute. But Nate is just a late talker. In every other

the door, while Natalie finished helping Nate with his morning routine

her with a smile as they walked

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

Brian and Sadie, yet

by observing

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reminded of who

believed that what people saw on the surface wasn’t always what their eyes beheld.

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