ACTIONS MORE THAN WORDS

Ian’s smile got bigger at watching the image in front of him. With that smile, Alice could assure that he was lighting up the entire world and maybe, her entire world, even if she didn’t want to affirm it. For sure, that smile of his lit up Joseph’s world. In his little heart he knew in him the promised father figure was.

Joseph got up from his mother’s lap and went to Ian, who extended his arms as soon as he saw that baby coming to him. Alice smiled, trying to hide the question in her gesture she was receiving Ian with. Something was for sure, Ian was going to stay, and he was not going to move from the spot where the sunlight of her smile warmed him up carefully. What should she do when he was not afraid of the past turning into their present? What should she do when she was starting to like his company and the way he was making her part of his hectic life?

“How have you been, sweet pie? Have you finished your homework?” Ian lifted him up in his arms.

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