Chapter 61 She's Back for Matthew?

Rocky Ace De Luna POV

“Where’s the pretty lady, Daddy? Why won’t she come play dinosaurs with me again?”

Matthew had been repeating those two questions more often by the day.

I could tell Aryana had made an impression on him. In his young mind, she was an ideal playmate. Naturally, my boy had his reasons. He’d told me over and over how fun it was to play with Aryana. How she voiced the various dinosaurs. How she colored with him. How they’d read a book together before bedtime.

My son hadn’t had much experience with a woman doing those kinds of things with him. The sixteen-year-old who sometimes babysat was on her phone a lot, Matthew had told me. After school, when he stayed with the neighbor, he mostly played with her grandchild while she prepared dinner. And he barely remembered his mother.

So yeah, he’d enjoyed having Aryana here to play with him and read to him. And, well, he was his father’s son. I suspected he liked the way she looked, in an age-appropriate way.

Couldn’t fault h