Chapter 2: Learning Their World
Chapter 2: Learning Their World
The following Monday, Daniel canceled every board meeting.
His executives were stunned.
The Milan acquisition could wait.
The Paris hotel renovation could wait.
For the first time in his career...
His children came first.
Every morning at eight o'clock, Arya arrived at the Reed estate.
Not as a waitress.
As their sign language teacher.
The first lesson lasted three hours.
Daniel struggled through the alphabet.
Mixed up handshapes.
Forgot movements.
Repeated signs over and over.
Oliver laughed every time his father accidentally signed "banana" instead of "brother."
Sophie gently corrected him by taking his hands and guiding them into the proper position.
Little by little...
Their home filled with conversations that had never existed before.
One evening Daniel asked his first complete question without Arya translating.
Did you have a good day?
Oliver answered immediately.
Yes. Dad talked to us today.
Sophie smiled.
Today was my favorite day.
Daniel had negotiated billion-dollar contracts without emotion.
Yet those simple answers nearly brought him to tears.
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Meanwhile, Arya quietly packed her teaching materials each afternoon, believing her job would eventually end.
She had no idea she had already become part of the family.
