He stepped out of the room, and as he walked to Emma Aiden's doorway, a picture flashed before his eyes of her suddenly reaching out to hug him last night.
The sadness on her was almost instantly infectious to him.
He had never seen such a slump in her before.
Just as he was about to comfort her, she suddenly hugged him and burst into tears.
Crying heartbreakingly, like a child aggrieved for not getting candy...
So clearly childlike, yet the way she wholly depended on him gave him a long-lost sense of familiarity.
That was his little daughter-in-law.
Outside, she was like a little tyrant, but only in front of him would she be like a child who never grows up, a little daughter-in-law who loved to act cute and spoiled...
The longer she cried, the longer he held her, standing by the street side.
