Bella She didn’t really have a problem with Parker being the one to look after Whit and Milly. He was Whit’s dad and Milly was getting along with him well, had likely bonded to him in her own distress over seeing Bella in the hospital, unconscious with IV lines running and an ECG monitor hooked up to her constantly. She might not have known the exact truth, but seeing anyone in a room with machines beeping and things attached to them, even children her age understood something was wrong; that a person was sick. It was likely Milly had needed comfort and Parker had given it, so much so that she was now bonded to him, likely from what she’d seen this morning Milly asleep on him, and then this afternoon, sharing food with him, and all the times he’d been able to pick her up, she was as bo

