True Fated Marriage (Grace and Heinz) novel Chapter 1007

Little Gary was also shocked by his mommy's suggestion, "Did Mommy discover this little demon's true colors already?" He couldn't help but wonder about it.

He gazed at Grace.

She smiled at him in return. Deep down, she was beginning to suspect Maria, considering how she loved spending time with Little Gary, but became so frightened at the mere sight of Heinz.

It seemed like an instinctive fear towards adult men such as Heinz.

Perhaps, his presence would make her go to bed earlier.

"Alright then, Mommy, we'll leave Maria to you and Old Heinz. Well leave now," Little Gary purposely said while staring at Maria, who still didn't want to lift her head up.

Suddenly, she lifted her head unexpectedly and quickly shouted," Don't go, Little Gary! I don't want Uncle and Aunty to accompany me. Can you two brothers stay here and accompany me instead, please? I'm really pitiful."

This little girl was really eloquent with the way she made herself sound so pitiful.

Grace exchanged glances with Heinz. It seemed like the whole family was in action to deal with her now.

Maria was such a cheeky girl, and she dared to call herself pitiful.

She was hilarious.

"Alright." Little Gary said, "Ernest and I will stay here to accompany you since you claimed to be so pitiful then. However, you have to promise that you will close your eyes and try to sleep without talking. Otherwise, we won't be accompanying you anymore. As a pregnant woman, my mommy needs more rest, whereas Ernest and I are children, so we can't stay up too late either. The most capable person to stay up would be Old Heinz, so perhaps he would be the one accompanying you until you fall asleep."

Upon hearing what he said, Maria tried to secretly look at Heinz in a timid manner.

He happened to be looking at her as well so the both of them stared at each other. Immediately, Maria lowered her head and said, "Okay, I understand. I promise."

After that, Heinz held Grace's hand as they walked towards their bedroom.

They communicated for a while, which made Grace realize that something was indeed a little off with Maria.

Nevertheless, she could not help but think that everyone might just be overly sensitive about it and that they shouldn't have thought of a little girl like that. Perhaps everyone was just overthinking.

As such, Yvonne called at the perfect timing.

She sounded anxious and apologetic on the other end, "Mrs. Smith, is everything alright there?"

"Don't worry, Maria is doing quite well." Grace immediately tried to reassure her, "You don't have to worry about her."

"I'm anxious and worried because of you guys and not Maria," Yvonne answered apologetically. "Did Maria cause trouble in your house?"

Grace was taken aback. "What did you mean by worrying about us?"

"To put it this way, Maria is very good at adapting to her situations, which is why I wasn't so worried about her. However, I was really worried that she would put you guys in a difficult position. You must have thought that she was behaving weirdly, right?"

A mother knew her daughter best after all.

After being stunned for a while, Grace responded, "Madam Attwood, did you mean that Maria would actually try to trick people intentionally?"

"You've found out already?" Yvonne exclaimed, "I knew she was a troublemaker, but I didn't think that she would dare to do it since it was her first time in your house. I can't believe that she really made your lives difficult after all."

"No, no, don't worry," Grace answered. "She didn't cause a lot of trouble. The only thing is that she loves talking so much as if she can't even stop for a moment. If we stopped talking, she would start crying almost instantly."

"It's all an act," Yvonne said, "She's just pretending to cry so you don't have to be bothered. Just leave her in the room and everything will be fine."

"Ah, I don't think that's necessary. Both my sons are accompanying her now as she seems to like them more than me." Grace laughed about it. "I was really surprised at how intelligent Maria is though."