Ava squirms as she gazes into my eyes. “He was, and he’s seriously hot now─ I mean, for an old dude. And his accent is so cool.”
A chuckle escapes my lips as I imagine the expression on Ewan’s face if he heard her. She reminds me of me when I was younger. Like her, I thought that Ewan was cute, and I loved his accent. I also thought anyone over eighteen was old.
“I think Ewan loves you.” She mumbles with a mischievous twinkle in her eye. “He looks at you like you’re the most beautiful woman in the world.”
She flips the picture over in her fingers and waves it in front of me. “He’s smiling in the picture, but he doesn’t look at mom the way he does you.”
A blush creeps up my neck. My niece is quite observant for someone so young. “I love him too.”
Ava’s smile dims as she places the pi
