Chapter 23
Larissa’s POV
“Declan dear…Declan! Wait up!”
I was already out of breath, why was it that a toddler as little as this child would outrun me every single time?
He was giggling and running up the stairs without even looking back, and no matter how much I tried to catch up with him, he was always one step ahead of me. Or several, I couldn’t count how many times I had stumbled already on the stairs with Gwen right behind me.
He had said he wanted to play something fun. I didn’t realize that the idea of fun I’d instilled in him involved me running around like my life depended on it in a bid to ‘tag’ a child. For the first time, I was grateful to have put my hair up in a bun.
I stopped in front of a pair of French doors that I’d never crossed before. It was upstairs as well, o
