The Runaway Groom

Both Zachary and Lulu hurried into the room, where Erma had Luna in her arms and was coaxing her to sleep.

Lulu scowled at the sight of Erma, storming angrily toward her.

"What are you doing?!" Lulu demanded accusingly while taking Luna off her arms. "Can't you get some training? Why can't you hold the baby right? She's so young!"

Luna had been crying for so long her voice was hoarse, and Lulu actually felt the impulse to cry upon seeing Luna.

She finally got to see her baby—the baby whom she had carried for ten difficult months and thought of every waking moment.

On the other hand, Erma was left stunned—that was how she always carried her children, and no one told her that it was wrong!

"Mr. Slate, I..." she stammered, left awkward and unsure what to say. "Go back to cleaning the house!"

his eyes fixed on

with what she said, and she acted just

Zachary leaned against the window, watching

just happened to spill in, illuminating Lulu as she coaxed the baby softly,

he had flashbacks of another person even as he watched her from behind. It was such a shame that the woman before him

have a thermometer for children?" She had yet to

surprising now that Luna was crying for over a day—she

appeared taken aback and wheeled

was for general use, and Lulu would rather her baby