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“You did, Dada? You never told me that! Thank you!” She threw her arms around him. When she pulled back to look up at him, he was blushing slightly.

Aww. He was the cutest.

“Let’s play!”

“This isthe greatest Lego Christmas village ever!” she cried.

“It’s definitely looking good, Kitten,” he agreed. “Although it’s a bit early for Christmas.”

“Dada! It’s never too early for Christmas.” She sat back and looked at everything they had built.

When she’d asked Papa to build it, he’d claimed that his fingers were too big for Lego. And Salem had told her that it was too early to create it.

But maybe they’d known that Roman would want to build it for her.

“Agreed,” he said with a smile. “What Lego shall I get us next?”

“You bought this for me?”

“I did.”

“Thank you, Dada!” She went to throw herself into his arms, then hesitated “Can I hug you?”

“You may.”

She threw her arms around him and he held her tight for a few moments.

“Can we play something different, Dada?”

“What would you like to play, darling girl?”

“Hide and seek!”

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Salem walked up the footpath as the front door opened.

“I’ve lost her!” Roman said frantically, pulling at his hair.

Alarm filled Salem.

How could she be lost? She wasn’t supposed to leave the house without telling them where she was going.

If she had left she was in big trouble.

“She left the house? Why would she do that without letting us know? Did something happen?”

“What? No. I mean, I don’t think she did. I told her that the hide and seek parameters were to stay inside the house.”

“Hide and seek?” he asked.

“Yeah, hide and seek.”

Relief filled him. “So she’s still in the house, she’s just hiding from you.”

“It’s been thirty minutes and I haven’t found her.”

Bloody hell.

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