Unlike before, when the little one would just lie there and sleep, now she is curious about everything and wants to grab anything she sees. Timmy's carefully ironed white shirt already has a few wrinkles from her little hands.
"Say daddy," Jared Quinn carefully held her with both hands.
Little Melody looked so much like Melody Thorne, her rosy little mouth occasionally drooling, now only making one sound, "da... da."
Timmy taught her that. Whoever bullies his sister gets a "da-da-da."
"She'll grow up fast. Soon enough, she'll be a little beauty. I bet many wealthy families in Ardenia are already eyeing her as their future daughter-in-law," Sila joked.
"She won't marry anyone when she grows up!" Jared Quinn would never let his precious daughter marry another man.
"Hmm?" Melody Thorne looked up. "What if you can't stop her then? What if she falls in love and insists on getting married?"
"Bring a son-in-law to stay with us!"
Melody Thorne chuckled.
