Billionaire, Let's Divorce (Mark and Sydney) novel Chapter 393

AIDEN

“You look ahead all the time!"

"Like this?” I asked as I turned to my left.

"What? No." She palmed both sides of my face and made me face forward. “Like this."

When she removed her hands, I turned to my right.

I was met with silence. When I turned back to face her, there was confusion in her eyes. She looked at me like I was some dumbass.

"What?" I asked, folding my lips in my mouth to keep my laugh at bay.

“Did you go to school?"

That was it. I burst out laughing. And all the while she just watched me.

She shook her head. “There's also a boy in my class who laughs whenever he's being taught. But my teacher continues teaching anyway."

Then she proceeded to show me my right and my left and afterward told me the difference between those two and my front.

As I watched her, I was sure that her brother was surely a lucky boy to have her as an older sister.

When she was done, she took a deep breath then looked at me, her brows slightly squeezed in worry. “I could write it in a paper for you. So whenever you forget it, you can just go back to it. My daddy tells me to do that all the time."

"Oh that will be great. Thank you so much, Amie,” I answered in a cheery tone, trying to ignore the pang that accompanied the word ‘daddy.’

It's not been up to ten minutes since we began our walk and she has mentioned ‘daddy’ like a thousand times.

I wished it was me she was referring to with that term but it only made my heart constrict even more. It saddened me that I couldn't disclose to her that I was her ‘daddy’ and not Dennis.

I might not add the detail that Dennis wasn't his dad but I desperately wished I could tell her. I wished I could bond with her so much that she would quote and mention me everytime.

After a while, the lectures on being polite died down and she was back to asking a thousand questions in a minute.

“Is that a sunflower?" She pointed towards the garden as we walked by it.

“I nodded and that one beside it is a lily flower. Those two are usually seen in the same area together.”

She nodded slowly. "Can I touch it? Let's go touch it.”

I granted her wish and we moved into the garden. I slowly walked past each well-bred shrub and her fingers grazed their surfaces.

At one point, she asked me to stop so she could sniff the flowers. She came up with her nose scrunched up.

“It smells bad," she whispered.

I chuckled. “Why are you whispering?"

She shrugged. “I thought we were supposed to pretend that they smell good. All the princesses in cartoons say it smells nice. They smile while sniffing them."