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"Just sitting with the children." Odette asked him, "Is everything alright there? How is the negotiation going?" When Eric said that he was going for a business negotiation, Odette did not doubt it at all. Eric thought about his conversation with Natasha this morning and sighed lightly. "Everything is fine, how are you and the children?"

Just as he finished speaking, he heard a series of tiny babbling coming from the other end of the phone. It was very soft. Eric curled up into a happy smile and he asked, "Are they making things difficult for you?"

The children were still very small and needed to be taken care of. Odette had just recovered from her illness, so it was hard for her to take care of two children once. This was the reason, why Eric did not want to come to Europe during this period.