Crashing into an Old Flame
Chapter 79: Is she yours?

Chapter 79: Is she yours?

Diana dragged herself up forcefully and slapped her sleepy face a few times.

She grabbed the glass of water from the bedside table and sprinkled some of it on her face, feeling more awake.

Then she changed Angel’s diapers.

Unlike the first time when she even forgot that kids needed to change diapers, she was now a pro at it.

After the girl drank some water, she finally stopped crying.

Diana placed the bottle aside and patted her, trying to put her to sleep. But the girl flipped her body and stuck her bottom in the air.

The corner of her lips twitched, ’’You are not going to sleep, are you?" Diana asked her warily.

And as if she could understand her words, Angel looked at her and giggled.

It was as if she was saying ’Yours truly is not sleeping. So, what you gonna do about it?’

Burning three incense sticks for her beauty sleep, Diana covered the little girl in her mini blanket and picked her up before walking out of the house.

If she kept sitting in the bedroom, she might doze off accidentally so it was better to get some fresh air instead.

Just as Diana stepped inside the gardens with a giggling Angel in her arms, she spotted a silhouette in the distance.

It was too late to turn around and run away because just like her, the man had turned around and noticed her too.

’’Not sleeping yet?" Maxim asked, walking out of the shadows of the tall trees as he made his way towards the bench between them.

Diana stepped forward and took a seat on the wooden bench that was recently added to the garden.

A question sprouted in her mind. This was his friend’s house then why did Maxim put so much effort and money into renovating it, even the gardens included?

She had not found it strange earlier because she thought Maxim was the owner and he recently brought this house but now...

’’Uh... Angel woke up,’’ she answered him, her gaze occasionally straying to his face.

’’You have something to ask?" Maxim took a seat beside her, on the other side of the bench.

’’Why did you renovate this place?" she asked him after a moment of silence, ’’You even planted so many roses here in the gardens...’’ the initially dilapidated garden space was now drowning in a sea of roses.

Maxim’s back went rigid when she was not looking at him and by the time her attention was back on him, he looked normal, ’’To make it presentable.’’

Listening to his words, Diana felt like it was feasible. Maxim was used to keeping his things organized. Back in the school days, the place where Maxim and his mother lived was nowhere close to being luxurious but Maxim’s room was cleaner than her whole house.

She nodded at him and the place resumed its silence again.

Unlike the silence in the car earlier, this time, it seemed less awkward between them.

Diana tilted her head and glanced at the sky.

’’Ma... Ma... Ma...’’

A soft cotton-like voice drifted off in the silent atmosphere.

Diana was stunned.

Maxim glanced at the baby girl in Diana’s arms. She was tucked in so many layers that he had thought that she dozed off. Who could have known she would start speaking at this time?

’’Oh my...’’ Diana gasped as she pulled Angel up, looking at her adorable face, ’’Baby, are you talking?"

’’Ma...’’ Angel giggled again.

Diana glanced at Maxim, her eyes wordlessly telling him that she was so happy.

He smiled at her, ’’I know.’’

Diana’s heart skipped a beat and she went into a daze as she watched him smiling so widely that his dimples were visible.

’’Ma... Ma...’’

Diana snapped out of her daze and glanced at Angel. But suddenly, her face fell, ’’I am so worried,’’ she mumbled in distress.

’’About what?" Maxim was expecting her to jump out of happiness but looking at her sullen face, he could not help but be alert.

’’One day, she is going to grow up and get married,’’ Diana cringed, ’’Or worse, imagine the guys hitting on her when she goes to kindergarten.’’

Dark lines appeared on Maxim’s face, ’’Who hits on girls in kindergarten?"

Diana hugged Angel protectively as she glared at Maxim, ’’What do you know? I still remember my first day in kindergarten. I lost my rubber band and ended up crying because it was my favorite one. But then the cute guy sitting next to me consoled me and said that I look so pretty with open hair,’’ Diana tilted her chin, ’’He even said he will ask his mother to buy a whole set of rubber bands for me...’’ she trailed off when she noticed that Maxim’s face was black like the bottom of a pot, ’’What?"

Maxim schooled his expressions, ’’He must have found you gullible.’’

’’What are you saying?’’ Diana got defensive, ’’I have always been the smartest child in the room. And not to brag but I looked like a doll back then. No wonder he would hit on me.’’

You still look like a doll, just an updated grown-up version. A voice in his head said.

Maxim ignored it and asked her solemnly. ’’Then did he fulfill his promise?"

Diana did not remember that guy giving her a box of rubber bands so she shook her head.

Maxim’s face was like ’See, I told you’.

Diana was speechless, ’’You just don’t want to believe how adorable I was. Hmph. If you met the mini me in the earlier days, you would have fallen for me at the first sight. I was that adorable.’’

’’As if meeting in the later days changed anything...’’

’’Hmm? Did you say something?" Diana glanced at Maxim.

He met her gaze for a moment before his gaze drifted off to the child who had now stopped speaking as she played with Diana’s blonde locks, ’’Is she yours?" The question that he had suppressed in his heart so far slipped from his mouth.

It was late to take it back so he just glanced at her face and waited patiently. Or at least, he faked the patience part.

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