Zachary and Darryl are cuddle up against Maxwell, watching a movie on Netflix. All three of them dozing off. Maxwell his mobile starts ringing, making him alert again. He takes out the phone of his pocket and sees he has received an e-mail. He turns of the screen of his phone again and looks at the two boys, seeing they are half asleep.

"Boys, it's time for bath and then you're off to bed." He says, tickling their sides softly.

Soft giggles escape the lips of Zachary and Darryl, before they sit right up. Maxwell stands up and picks up Zachary, holding him with one hand he holds out his other hand towards Darryl.

"Let's go."

Darryl grabs Maxwell his hand and gets off the couch, they make their way towards the stairs and going upstairs. Once they are upstairs Maxwell put down Zachary who walks towards the bathroom with his brother, Maxwell following them behind.

Maxwell fills up the bathtub once they are in the bathroom, both boys standing there watching their father filling up the tub.

"Little tykes go get undressed." Maxwell says as he keeps filling the tub.

He hears them rustling behind him, knowing they will be getting undressed. Once there is enough water in the tub Maxwell turns off the water and turns around towards the boys, seeing that Zachary is struggling with his clothes and Darryl is nearly done undressing.

Maxwell crouches down in front of Zachary, helping him get off his clothes. He is happy that Zachary is already potty trained for the day and only needs diapers for the night, which means they don't have to go to Zachary his room first to take of the diaper.

Maxwell places both boys in the tub once they are both fully undressed. Both boys start splashing water at each other and Maxwell slightly shakes his head at them just watching them enjoy teasing each other with water. He is happy how carefree the kids look, knowing what news they will be hearing tomorrow he wonders how much of those moments he will have the coming weeks.

"Time to get clean boys."

Maxwell hands a washcloth to Darryl, making the washcloth for Zachary wet himself before he starts to clean Zachary. He first cleans the left-over spaghetti sauce that is still all over Zachary his face before cleaning the rest.

Once they are sparkling clean again and Maxwell has washed their hair, he lets them play with the foam for a little longer as he grabs two towels to dry off the boys.

Maxwell helps the boys getting out of the tub once they are done, wrapping the towels around both boys.

"So, what bedtime story do the two of you want today?"

"Jungle book." The boys say in choir.

Maxwell nods at them and helps them dry off, helping Darryl only with his hair. Once the boys are fully dry, he puts the towel around their waist, seeing as the pyjamas are still in their room. Zachary is starting to yawn and rubs his eyes; Maxwell knows he won't be awake much longer once he starts reading the bedtime story.

"Let's get dressed boys."

Nodding their head, the boys start walking out of the bathroom towards their own separated room. Maxwell following behind Zachary to help him dress in his pyjamas.

Once Zachary is in his room he walks towards his bed, before he can walk further to it Maxwell scoops him because he needs a diaper on.

When Zachary has a diaper on and his pyjamas Maxwell lays him in bed, seconds later Darryl comes walking in with the story they want to hear. Most of the time the reading happens in Darryl his room but on days like this where Zachary is super exhausted, they do it in Zachary his room.

Darryl crawls next to Zachary and Maxwell sits down on the end of the bed, watching them cuddle before he starts reading the story. While reading the story Maxwell watches to the boys a few times, he is catching Zachary trying to stifle a yawn and he stops reading.

"Want to have a sleepover tonight boys?"

Both boys perk their heads up slightly as soon as those words have left Maxwell his mouth, no matter how tired they are they both manage to have a big grin formed on their lips.

"I take that as a yes," Maxwell says because they don't reply. "Then it's time for bed now. Tomorrow we'll finish reading the story."

Zachary snuggles closer to his brother while Darryl nods at his father. Maxwell gets off the bed and tucks the boys in, kissing them both on top of their heads.

"Goodnight little tykes."

"Goodnight."

Maxwell slowly leaves the room, looking at the boys before he closes the door slightly, seeing Zachary has fallen asleep already.

Maxwell sighs as he lets himself fall on the couch in his study, grabbing his phone out of his pocket. He unlocks it and starts dialling his mother's number. Within seconds after putting the phone against his ear he hears his mother's voice.

"Darling is something wrong?" She asks immediately

"Nothing is wrong mother; I just want to give you a head ups because Kate will be here tomorrow. Please for the sake of my kids, act normal mother." Maxwell begs slightly. "I know you don't like her, I also don't like her, but I want to keep my kids and not have her take them away from me. Plus, we don't know what she will do tomorrow, for all we know she changes her mind and wants to take Darryl and Zachary with her."

Maxwell hears his mother pacing around the room and a desperate sigh leaves his lips before he starts rubbing his temple with his free hand, feeling a small headache coming up.

"I promise I will try. I can't say it will work but I'll try my best. For you and my grandchildren."

"Thanks mom. Enjoy your night with dad and I'll see you in the morning."

"Thanks honey, I'll see you tomorrow and don't worry too much." Before Maxwell can mutter a reply, his mother has hung up on him.

Once his mother has hung up on him Maxwell lowers his phone and just stares blankly at the screen for a few seconds before getting distracted by the e-mail notification he has.

He decides to get behind his computer to check his mail on there. He will also search on the au pair site in hope that he may find a few candidates that he can pick from. Seeing he hasn't been able to look at the website he is registered the whole week because of his busy schedule he is slightly afraid of a whole lot of messages.

Maxwell drags himself off the couch and starts walking towards his desk, where his laptop is standing. While he waits for his laptop to start up, he drums his fingers softly on the desk. Once his laptop shows the sign in page he starts typing in his password.

Maxwell immediately opens the browse and starts checking out his mails, especially to check out the one he got when he was with the kids. He only catches a bit of that e-mail before he deleted the notification, but he saw that the name of the au pair site was mentioned in it and he wonders if someone qualified has finally answered him.

His eyes scan the mail once he has opened it. It doesn't give much information only that he has a heap of messages left to be read. He opens the website through the link in the e-mail, which directly leads him to the inbox on the website.

He scans through the names and pictures that are with the message's, seeing that at least eight of them are female, he decides to delete those because of the previous encounters he has had with female nannies. only four messages are from males.

Maxwell opens the first message that is left and reads through it.

Good day mister Lewis,

I'm Jason and I'd like to contact you over the spot you have open for an au pair position.

I'm 23 years old and recently got my degree in childcare, the job would be an amazing experience and would look good on my resume.

Especially for later jobs it would be very nice to have this as experience on my resume. I hope to hear something back from you mister Lewis.

Kind regards,

Jason Smiths.

Because of his resume the boy thinks he acts like a professional with just mentioning it, but it doesn't seem to fit for Maxwell. Mainly because of the way he wants to use it just for his own good. Maxwell does know it will be great to have someone that knows his business, but what he has learned is probably the standard book stuff and some experience he got during internships, but he does barely mention anything else expect for it being great for his future. Maxwell isn't sure what to do but he doesn't delete the e-mail just yet.