The First Heir

At this moment, a tiny figure was rubbing her sleepy eyes. She was wearing a cute pair of pink pajamas and standing at the bedroom door.

“Daddy…”

Mila called out and walked in wearing big pink slippers.

Philip smiled, bent over, and picked Mila up. He hopped her nose and asked, “Why are you awake?”

Mila hid in Philip’s arms in fear and said, “I had a nightmare. I dreamed that Mom left me and went far away.”

While saying that, Mila looked at the sleeping Wynn on the bed and wanted to call out to her.

Philip immediately put a finger to his mouth in a shushing gesture and said, “Mom is asleep. Let me play with you for a while.”

Mila nodded, looking very cute with her hair slightly disheveled.

The father and daughter sat in the living room to play at this moment. While playing, Philip noticed a small object hanging from Mila’s neck. It was a small green bottle carved with patterns and there was a red string on both ends. The bottle was about the size of a little finger.

Philip frowned. He did not buy this for his daughter.

given by

your neck?” Philip put Mila on his knee and looked at the small object

to be a container with very complicated

held the object in her chubby little hands and

Aunt? Hannah Clarke?

him before he left the hospital in Uppercreek last time. The letter mentioned

the small object in

smiled and said, “Mila, can you show it to

the small object from her neck and put it in

the small green bottle and looked at it carefully several times under the light.

that the material of this thing was very hard. It was similar to jade but not quite like it, or perhaps something metal. After looking at it for a while, Philip still could not figure out what it was. He could only hand it back to Mila glumly. He stroked her head and said, “Aunt Hannah gave it

two dimples. She

time with Mila, Philip sent her back to her room and put her to sleep. Before

Hannah mean by

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Outside Philip’s residence, a