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 delayed expressive abilities, which could lead

this description. Moreover, Madelyn neither wanted him nor showed him

improved. He was speaking more fluidly

understood what Nate was trying to express.

continued cleaning his face with a gentle smile, saying, “Soon, no one at preschool will be calling our little Nate

mute. But Nate is just a late talker. In every other way, he’s exceptionally clever…” Sadie added from the next room,

awkward as she stood by the door, while Natalie finished helping Nate with his morning routine

alright,” Natalie reassured her with a smile as they

and even Brian himself, would compare Nate to Natalie as a child. Although Nate was the spitting image of Brian, his personality seemed to take

was raised by Brian and Sadie, yet

just by

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constantly reminded of who brought him into this

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