Chapter 44 : "Not like her."

Eleanor's P.O.V

Fear.

It was an emotion that I had witnessed in Daniel's eyes before quite frequently. But, none of them can compare to the kind of fear I saw lingering in his eyes today. It was as if-

"Mom!" Danielle's voice brought me out of my thoughts as I felt my heart swell with pride upon seeing my little one hold a tray filled with different shapes of cookies.

"They are so pretty, El!" I complimented her as I rubbed her pretty little head making her giggle. "Now then, let's place the tray in oven. And then, both of us can spend the rest of the night talking before your father and uncles decide to come back. Cool?"

"Cool!" Danielle jumped in excitement as she then walked over to the oven placing the tray of unbaked cookies inside it. Then, ran back to me as we walked to the couch hand in hand.

"Mom! Let's remove this table and sit on the floor!" My Danielle said in a little too excited state followed by the giggle as she left my hand and tried to remove the heavy table all b