Juliette Pov

'Do you like it?" Mrs. Julia asked me while I licked the Vanilla ice cream from my spoon.

'Yes ma'am Thank you," I said and took another spoon of ice cream into my mouth.

'Ma'am?" she asked puzzled and laughed 'oh dear!"

'Call me mom. I'm like your mother" she said in a soothing voice that almost made me cry. I missed my mom so badly. I wished to hear her voice for at least once.

Nevertheless, I smiled at the kind woman at me and said in a low voice as it felt strange for me to call another woman as a mom 'Thank you, mom".

She...