a

ade's room clo

room and let herself fall

ve her a wide look

" She

ng would have terrified her?" He inqu

ds her arms Then forced

like that most tim

hat?" He asked again,

what, ne

ok with his tongue which stuck out

re. She placed her small fingers on his lips hopi

d her

le and cuddled her which made her laugh. He repeate

r option than to dance wi

rom within her, she only let out a soft chuc

ood. How lovely it would have been if this was truly

Harper. She watched as both of them were carried away in their wo

le before she bounced back to the very firs

nocent an

he gets hurt" She warned and quickly

do?" Jace stopped, the smile gradually fading

u aren't my problem. You are a problem to yourself only, my child i

o another mess. I won't clean it up eve

n the rocky chair now patting Harper who w

ghten as the baby al

e, a total stranger? Well it h

e gently and walked to the window, counting her steps and being ve

ually moving back into this loop I've been trying to avoid? The

here was a strange gas pumped in, so she walked

ressed her face against it, shutting

face fixed at a spot and his hands still

ed to remember how the cl

up the incident of the

e silence but only

ok at his direction with her hands still holding the louvre. She'd

range, I mean

gle of his gaze in that particula

trange?"

ting at me and..." he was cut s

ps that was another sound or she probably w

calm with her hands now folded against each o

" He asked and

ds the baby drawer, her phone rang. As soon

ff while still tapping Har

ewed a little for two seconds then

tside and gently clos

e,you called

what?" the caller res

feel nudgy in my stomach." sh

try. Give i

o wakes up someone in the morning and starts as

lling through my website tonight and I thin

pen, she turned her head and Jace Sticks his head about to say a word, she

d confused with

say is that I... i

girl, I think my neighbors

ned to face him alm

wrong w

aid and brushed her off, walked into the kitchen,

and her eyes followed him until he entere

almost r