Chapter 1039

Grace returned to her room late that night. As soon as she stepped inside, she found Oliver propped up against the headboard reading, with Cliff fast asleep beside him. Oliver barely glanced up when she entered, his eyes quickly returning to his book. Grace bit her tongue playfully and scurried around to her side of the bed. She knelt and planted a kiss on their baby's chubby cheek. "If you wake him up, none of us will be getting any sleep," Oliver warned without looking up from his book. Grace pinched the baby's soft cheek and said meaningfully, "Well, without marriage, we wouldn't have such an adorable little one." Oliver pretended not to hear her. Like any young mother, Grace could not resist playing with and squishing her baby's cheeks. Yet, when he started crying, she turned to Oliver with a helpless look. Oliver sighed as Cliff's wails filled the room. The couple spent the rest of the night trying to console their temperamental little one. ... The next day, Peter left the