Chaos In The Darkness; Salvatores's Salvation-Chapter 223: A little girl - III

With smiles covered in chocolate and hair covered in flour, they stared at the cupcakes in the ove. Yes, cupcakes, that was what they had ended up making.

"They look so yummy, mummy!" arabella neared the oven with her nose almost touching the heated glass had it not been her mother who pulled her away and had been doing so for countless times.

Raising the little body of her daughter up to her eye level, Evelyn shook her a little emitting giggles out of her, "Did we not discuss about going near the oven?"

"Did we?" arablla tapped her finger on her chin. "I don’t think so." she scrunched up her nose and shook her curly head.

And that ,ade arabella receive a visit from the tickle monster.

Evelyn was aware of the eyes she felt on her. The chefs had left and so had Marco after sometime when they had figured what was where. Only Salvatore remained behind and she could feel his eyes on her back constantly.

When someone else entered the kitchen, she felt the shift in the atmosphere before she saw who it was. When she did look up, it was a stoic woman dressed in black. "Ma’am," she greeted with a bow before doing the same with Salvatore, "Sir."

She looked like a military woman and that made evelyn worry slightly especially when she saw her daughter smile at the woman and wave.

"Hello!" Arabelle grinned, "How are you, Iona?"

Then the woman, Iona, surprisingly smiled as she answered, "I am good, arabella. Would you like to have lunch now?"

"Nu-huh," the toddler shook her head, "cupcakes."

"Oh?" Iona raised an eyebrow. "How about we eat five pieces of broccoli and then as many cupcakes as we want?"

What? Evelyn stared at the women in mild shock. She was just going to order her child to eat greens?

"Four?" and her kid was bargaining?

"As you wish,’’ Iona winked before she walked closer to the fridge and pulled the broccoli out. Evelyn watched her work and slowly moved towards salvatore. "Who is she?" she murmured in his ear.

"My new wife."

Her head snapped towards him so fast that she ended up having a whiplash. She hissed through her teeth as she held her neck. It hurt, it hurt bad. Yet, she glared at him, "What do you mean?"

He ended up huffing instead of answering her. "What do you think?" he pointed to the woman, "she is her daughter’s nanny."

Evelyn immediately shook herhead, "no, my daughter does not need a nay. I am going to be there for her."

"That is not up for discussion," he intervened, "arabella will have a nanny."

"But why?’’ She did not have anything to do the entire day, which meant that she could easily take care of her daughter.

’Because i said so." he snapped harshly but lowered his volume enough to not let the child hear anything. "I let the child enter your life again, evelyn. It does not mean that it would not take it away. Understood?"

She did not even get to reply because he was already out of the kitchen, leaving her to stare at his back. Perhaps a few things would never change. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

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She was late.

Evelyn hurried out of the shower with wet hair and it felt disgusting. But she move forward because she had promised arabelle that they were going to have dinner together and just like old times.

It was understandable that the kid was having separation anxiety and the stay in the orphanage after meeting evelyn twice and not coming home. It was understandable that it had been too long for her and Evelyn had no desire to add anymore to that cause.

But washing the dirt of three-four days had taken longer than necessary and she cursed herself again before finally moving out of the room. Her steps were hurried and quick and before she knew it, Evelyn was right in front of the dining room only to come to a standstill.

Salvatore was sitting on his chair and her daughter was on a high chair which would seem pretty normal because they were just two individuals sitting in the dining room.

But on the contrary, she found Salvatore feeding her child who did not look like she was being forced.

He took a spoonful of her baby food and gently let it into her mouth. Arabella did not refute at all and chewed it slowly.

It was definitely a sight to see because she had never expected them to bond especially so soon.

Evelyn ended up leaving on the door and staring at both of them. Arabella did not even once refuse to eat and she actually finished her entire bowl for the first time. If that was because of the open age or the fact that Salvador was feeding her, she did not know.

"Try yours?" She pointed to his blade and surprisingly Salvatore nodded.

Taking a small spoonful, He erased it to her mouth who took all of it in even if the bite was a little big then antisipated by him.

She chuckled softly But that was enough to attract the attention of her daughter who brightened up at the side of her mother.

"Mommy!" She sequeled. "Come!" She made crabby hands for her mother who neared the baby and wiped the sauce off her face.

"You want a little sauce monster," she joked as she cleaned the tomato sauce away gently.

Arabella continued to talk and entertain the couple as Evelyn and Salvatore sat down to eat and finished their food.

It was then her daughter made the request known that she wanted both of them to take her in and surprisingly Salvatore agreed.

In fact he even read her daughter a bedtime story about fairies and princesses.

She did not shy away from looking at him. Instead she admired the way he handled the child. He did not exactly talk animatedly like she would have when it came to her children but it was enough to make her daughter happy and fall asleep.

"We need to talk," she was brought back from her land of imagination by him. "Come." He was fed before getting up from the bed where her daughter was sleeping on and walked out side, expecting her to follow.