"Sure! I love eating whatever you cook, Rose." Yerick hauled Steve up and cradled him in his arms. "Hey, little guy! Do you miss me?"

Steve suddenly raised a hand and hit Yerick's cheek in disdain, as if trying to push him away.

Yerick frowned. "Why did you hit me? Are you allowed to bully others just because you're small?"

Steve laughed and hit him again.

"Stevie, what are you doing?" Rosalie approached them. "No hitting. That's no good."

If he picked up the bad habit of hitting others even before he turned one, it would only get worse as he grew older.

"I think Stevie likes me. Children are often bolder around people they feel closer to. It's fine, he can hit me a few more times." Yerick didn't mind it at all. Steve was just an infant, so what did he have to fear? Would Steve devour him?

Yerick lifted Steve high, and Steve chuckled gleefully.

guys. I'll go prepare the

him. "Rose,

referring to. "He

two get to know each other? He

He's a good man,

see," Yerick said as he glanced shiftily around the place. "Seems like

passing remark or a deliberate question. She quickly put the bags down in the kitchen and said, "We're friends

treat him only as a

you are my friends, and

want you to be biased toward me. You know that I like you, Rose. I'm

Yerick was a few years younger than her and still a boy to her. Naturally, she didn't

and Theodore, who made her feel repressed and uneasy, sometimes even a little awkward. Both of them looked

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