Chapter 195: A Blooming Rose
Taking a cold bath for the umpteenth time that night, Cassian sat on the bed, drying his wet hair with a towel. When he was done, he placed the towel around his neck, and his Amber-brown eyes shifted to check the time on the wall clock.
It was already past 10pm, but Madeline hasn’t come to bed yet.
"Sigh... where is she?" He muttered, trying to remember if she told him anything about stepping out before he went to bathe, but since he was eager to confirm if she was alright, he stepped out of the room to go look for her.
Sauntering through the archway with both his hands in his pocket, his eyes searched for the woman who was making it difficult for him to fall asleep. Closing in on where the living room was located, Cassian could hear the cute giggling of a child, and when he peeked from a corner - on the couch, Madeline was seated with little Ethan who giggled contentedly at the rhyme song Madeline sang to him.
"One, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive, six, seven, eight, nine, ten..."
"Then I let go again." Ethan completed it, earning an impressive smile from Madeline who gave him a high-five as his reward.
"Okay another one." Madeline uttered softly while using a rubber band to tie Ethan’s hair at the front. " A sailor went to sea, sea, sea, to see what he could see, see, see, but all that he could see, see, see..."
"Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea." Ethan completed with a cheerful grin as he stretched both his hands out wide to emphasize how big the deep blue sea is, and by then, Madeline had finished with his hair as she tied it into two ponytails, stretching it at the tip so it would look fuller.
"Good boy!" She clapped for him, "see? I’m done with your hair, do you like it?" She asked Ethan who raised his two small hands to touch the fluffy ponytail of his hair, and he nodded his head.