The Epic Blind Date with My Boss

Grape nodded emphatically, then suddenly whispered, “Mommy, Daddy really loves you.”

Josie was taken aback. “Do you know what love is?”

“I don’t know, but I know he’s deeply in love with you.”

The child’s words were disjointed, spilling out without rhyme or reason. Josie didn’t pay it any mind.

Out of the blue, Grape asked, “Mommy, can you love Daddy?”

Josie paused once again, instinctively glancing at the figure outside. Love him?

“Why?” Josie asked.

“I want the two of you to be together, just like before in the big house, both of you loving me together.

Before, Josie never thought much about being from a single-parent family. It wasn’t until then that she realized the profound warmth a complete family could bring to a child’s upbringing.

For a moment, she found it incredibly difficult to respond.

mentioned she was exhausted, and before she knew it, she had drifted off to sleep. Josie carefully covered her

his fingers loosened, dropping the half-smoked cigarette to the ground,

side, momentarily at a loss for words. “Not bad. You’ve been taking care of her.

managed to maintain his composure, no longer as emotionally

wasn’t a hardship. The focus is on official

smoke was still present in the air. She cleared her throat lightly and said, “Grape mentioned

softly. “It’s not a dog. It’s

She was

It doesn’t cause harm to anyone. For now, it only listens to

seemed to half-understand those words. She strived to find a topic, so she told him about Laura’s reaction. “I don’t

streetlight fell upon her porcelain-white earlobe. Dexter felt the urge to smoke again, but he held back. “Were

Josie was choked up.

reached the point of truly understanding each other. “I refrained from telling her due to considering many factors,” Josie

gaze,

instance?”

was taken aback, falling deeply into his soft, pitiful gaze. For instance?

for the first time not averting her gaze, “Arnold said that on the night I

was talking about him leaving