Chapter 123

SEVEN YEARS LATER

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon with some cooling summer showers pouring down outside the window while Rafael spent a good amount of time in his study. He was lagging behind quite a bit because he spent all day at the water park yesterday and left work early even on Friday afternoon to attend his daughter's ballet performance.

He got up from his seat and stretched before stepping out to see what Ruhi and his little Snookums were up to. Even though he wanted to finish all the piled up stuff, he had gone two hours without seeing them and it felt like too much on a Sunday. He walked down to the kitchen to see what all the excitement was about.

Ruhi was watching something very seriously on her daughter's pink laptop while the little girl was busy whisking butter and molten chocolate. She got chocolate mousse on both her chubby cheeks while Ruhi got a good amount on her nose.

"Papa! You were not supposed to come out until w