The Billionaire's Regret
Whoever invented sugar, air-conditioning, and four-year-olds with the soul of a stuntman.
At first it was just a little cough.
One. Two.
Then her nose started getting stuffy. Her round cheeks went pink. When I pressed the back of my hand to her forehead, her skin was much warmer than I was comfortable with.
“There it is,” I muttered, standing in the middle of the living room holding the digital thermometer like a gun. “Turns out ice cream is not a complete food group.”
Poppy, who was kneeling in front of the Barbie castle, turned to look at me with an offended expression. “That’s not because of the ice cream. It’s because the air was unstable.”