If Andre had nothing to hide, he wouldn’t have fallen so quiet.
“Are Cooper and Owen just friends?” Mia pressed him again. “And is he actually dating that Kristen girl?” She was skeptical—her brother hardly seemed like the boyfriend type.
Andre countered, “Mia, where’d you dig all this up?”
Mia grinned, “So you admit it, then.”
Andre: “…”
Later, Andre figured out why his wife had showered their little rascal with so many kisses—it turns out their son’s chatty little mouth had spilled everything again.
That night, Andre sat out in the backyard, holding Henry and lost in thought.
Henry, just like when he was a baby, perched on his father’s lap, looking up with those big curious eyes.
Back then, all he could manage was a garbled “mm-mm.” Now he was all about tattling, spilling secrets, and chatting nonstop. “Daddy, what are you staring at me for?”
Andre tapped his son’s lips. “I’m deciding whether you need a little scolding.”
Henry furrowed his tiny brows, looking more and more like Mia with that adorable pout. Trouble? Again?
Upstairs, Mia had commandeered Andre’s phone to call her brother—he’d blocked her number yet again.
When Cooper saw the call, he picked up, “Hey, brother-in-law.”
“It’s your sister,” Mia shot back.
“…What’s up, Sis?”
By nine, Andre was carrying their yawning son back to the bedroom. “Did you get ahold of him?” he asked, finally reclaiming his phone.
Cooper shot back, “If a billionaire CEO can fall for you, why can’t a princess like me?”
The siblings sniped at each other over the line until Andre came back to the bedroom, and only then did Mia hang up.
After listening to his wife vent, complain, and pout, Andre finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Henry piped up, “See, Mom? I didn’t lie to you—don’t be mad at me!”
Mia swept her little marshmallow into her arms and smothered his chubby cheek with kisses. “Son, you’re my number one forever.”
Henry puckered his lips and kissed her right back. He knew his place as the true love of his mom’s heart.
That night, he basked in the glory of sleeping squished between both his parents.
And after everything that had happened—even though Andre had once insisted his son should stay far from trouble—come the weekend, he found himself taking his little boy out, ready to face the world together.

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