All Chapters of The Alpha Daddy's Contractual Bride: Chapter 251 - Chapter 255

I couldn’t explain, if someone asked me later, what was said—if anything—in those moments. Maybe nothing, or maybe a whole speech, carefully crafted to suit a funeral not for a person, but for an entire forest, twice over. Whatever was said was between us and the earth and the broken statue and thos

The drill wound down forty minutes later, the kids collapsing into the grass with sweaty faces and dramatic groans. I made my way through the group, mediating a dispute about who had finished first, listening to a lengthy story about someone’s cat, pressing a hand to the top of a head here and there

It was hard work, but it was good work. I enjoyed doing it, and I especially enjoyed seeing the progress kids who were so much like Nora made from just a few months of careful attention and understanding.But today was about Nora. It was her eleventh birthday, which meant no work. And since I was wo