Love Slave to the Mafia Boss's Passion 18 novel Chapter 217

“Welcome back home!” I greeted Hayden happily.

I waved a hand at him while my other arm was busy holding Little Hayden. Hayden looked at me with a brief look of surprise before his eyes narrowed suspiciously at me and then at the puppy in my arm. I had decided to surprise Hayden a little for a change by waiting for him right at the steps to the main door of the mansion.

“Why are you standing out here?” he asked.

“Waiting for you to come back, obviously,” I replied.

“Hmm…” he murmured.

Maybe it’s just my own imagination or the light playing tricks, but I thought Hayden looked a little happy just now.

“Little Hayden say, ‘welcome back’ too, Hayden,” I talked to the puppy in a sweet cooing voice.

“Why are you talking to the dog? He probably doesn’t understand a thing,” Hayden muttered darkly.

“I think he does understand somethings…” I countered stubbornly.

“Let’s go inside. You don’t need to wait for me outside,” Hayden said a little sternly as he walked past me into the mansion.

I smiled a little to myself before following him back inside. In my mind, I had already decided to wait for him outside again tomorrow because I was more than half convinced that he seemed a little happy about it.

“Isn’t that, right?” I whispered softly into Little Hayden’s large and pointy ear.

Hayden immediately seated himself at the dining table while the maids worked to serve the food. Little Hayden seemed excited about the food and began sniffing and twitching his nose rapidly. Hayden, on the other hand, seemed tired and detached. That only made me wonder what went wrong for him today.

“I guess work was busy?” I asked softly as I sat down in the chair opposite him.

Little Hayden’s eyes widened at the food on the table as he sat on my lap like a cute little plush toy.

“Work is boring as always,” Hayden muttered.

In other words, he doesn’t want to talk about it. Sometimes I wished that Luka would drop by, then perhaps I’d have a solid chance of learning about what was going on outside. It was evident that asking Hayden about it wouldn’t get me any answers and I’d probably get scolded. Thanks to Luka’s advice and my own learning curve, I’m getting a little better at managing Hayden so that we could some how coexist. For instance, I now knew that changing the topic of the conversation is the most appropriate course of action.