CHAPTER 6

“DADDY! We want her to be our mommy!”

Couldn’t believe what she just heard. Cath is stunned and prefers to think about it to be a simple slip of the tongue and a play that the innocent daughter of his teases them about. Her jaws wanted to drop, and her mind is half wandering and somewhat diving into the stash of her memories as the words reminded her. 

“When we both grow up, will you be the mother of my children, Cath?”

The fleeting words, but only then, and the hell not now. That Cath is desperately shaking away from her thoughts. As she reminds herself that it is not the time to be reminiscing about the things that she curses and should already forget. 

“Mom-mommy?”

She asks, putting on an awkward wild smile as she is composing herself at the same time and reminding herself that it is just a silly word from a kid who doesn’t even know what it means.

“Yes! I want you to be our mommy! Daddy, marry her.”

The cutest hell that she wanted the earth to open and swallow her whole or melt her instantly in that time. All in utter disbelief and embarrassment for being caught in a situation that she doesn’t have any weapons to counter back. Especially her little kind of enemy is an unexpected little girl that she is fond of. 

“Baby, that is not how it works.”

Sam somehow saves her butt. By simply explaining the words as directly as possible to the kid but then thinking, it might not be simple and now honestly doubting that the little girl will buy it. 

“No!”

The little girl screams, protests, and pouts. A spoiled brat who always had her way with anything and everything that she wanted. Knew it, and read the situation, she can tell Sam is not handling his daughter right, but who is she to say such a thing? Besides, by this very point, she is an outsider. 

Then Monique screams one more and insisted. 

“I want her to be our mommy! Marry her daddy!”

“Moni—”

“No, no, no! I want her!”

‘Oh boy,’ she thinks to herself and didn’t expect or paid to have this little mess the day that she arrives back in her hometown and meet unexpectedly the children of the man that she is avoiding, but work kills her and she is forced to. Now she is in another dilemma of dealing with the child who wanted her to be their mom. 

“Baby girl.”

Sam wanted to explain and make his daughter understand. For it is quite a turn of an awkward situation for all of them, especially Cath who for years, he just meets and seen in person, and by means ‘face to face.’ He isn’t complaining, but not what he expects for their meeting. 

“No!”

Monique still protested, pushing her father and coming down from his arms and holding his twin brother’s hand Cole. Ends up with the two of them pouting and protesting against their father. 

“Why don’t you marry her, you want us to have a mother right?”

Sam gasp a breath and deep where he couldn’t find the right words to say to his kids. 

Suddenly Monique runs behind Cath which took her by surprise, with the twins immediately holding her by both sides of her skirt tight. 

“Monique!”

Raised his voice which worsen the situation and made the twins hide behind Cath and even grabbed her dress tighter. She smiles a bit awkwardly and tries to calm the situation.

“I think we should calmly talk about this.”

She suggested while keeping her balance from the two kids who are desperately holding unto her like slugs. But the most adorable slugs that she had ever seen. 

“Well, you do not have the right to say that.”

Cut her immediately and between her words and thoughts. With the turn ‘the secretary jives in and somewhat wanted to steal the show, showing off that she should be ‘positioned’ in front of her. She is now receiving dagger-like gazes that worsen her already worst situation. 

“Monique, I mean, Miss Monique, young master Cole.” That entitled and claiming future stepmother calls, Erika. “You shouldn’t be acting like this. Remember that you should be responsible for your actions and words, to not upset your father, I mean the CEO.”

Erika acted like the good-natured mother-to-be, perhaps a pretentious girlfriend. That is a minute is a vicious stepmother material that reminds her of Snow White, and by a second after is like an angel who transforms in such whenever the twins’ father and her target husband are near. Cath couldn’t help but be pissed, now contemplating if she should slap the shape-shifting bitch. But before she could, and not even a way for her, and honestly, she will never do. Monique retorted. 

“I do not like you, you are evil, a witch!”

“What! You, kids.”

The little girl screams with the younger one, Cole blows raspberries at the bitchy lady that is clearly offended and now fuming with anger. Yet, Erika couldn’t just blow up and not in front of Sam.

All the while Sam is laughing in silence along with the bodyguards that are turning red from holding back their laughter. 

“We want her not you!” 

The twins added, making Erika’s mood turns even worse. 

“I couldn’t! This, ahh!”

Erika still controlled her temper and only pushes Cath aside as she walks past her and away from her. Turns back and gave Cath a threatening look that inside Cath’s mind, she just earned an enemy that very day that she came back. Not at all her plan, and only putting her deep into an unwanted situation. 

“Well,” Cath took a deep breath, turn s around, crouch down, and look at the twins with a gentle smile. “You see kids.”

She takes the initiative to explain everything in the simple way possible. 

“I have something to say, but can you promise me that you two will behave and listen?”

Her calm and soft approach to the twins that Monique and Cole immediately agree with and did what she just asked them to do. Which is new, that took Sam by surprise and impressed her. 

“First, it’s not good to talk back to people, especially if they are much older than you. Second, you should always listen to your father for he knows what is right and wrong for you. And third, there are things that you can have, as there are many things that you shouldn’t ask, and put a fight and pout if it isn’t granted to you. Like telling someone to be your mommy.”

The twins listen and draw the saddest expression that amazes Sam once more and slowly put a smile on his face. For it is the first time after years that his kids listen to someone and obediently listen without cracking a tantrum for a second. 

“Can’t you be our mommy?”

Monique asks in a down tone and in a brim of crying, which takes Cath aback. But she all knew what to do when she smiles and said. 

“Being a mom is not easy, especially for the two kids who are kind of naughty.”

She made her tone a bit comedic but reminded the twins of what she just told them. Her gentle nature and her love for kids made her kind of an expert in handling them, making the twins smile, especially Monique. 

“Then, if we promise to be good and not to be naughty, will you be our mom?”

The little girl’s request and wit that Cath is kind of impressed about. Monique’s quick-witted mind made her stand for the reason that she is a bit in danger. 

“But I do not love your dad.’”

Cath whispers, forced to say those words in that situation which can either hurt and discourage the kids or make them hate her. Yet. 

 “Then, you must become our nanny first, in that way you will always see daddy and you will fall in love with him in no time. For you see, our dad is a catch.”

‘Oh boy!’ Cath's jaw finally drops, hearing Monique’s words and witty reasoning that she wanted to hide away from. Not to mention dares to even look at Sam right now. Worse when Cole seconded. 

“Be our nanny!”