Unsure of the occasion, she sensed a lively celebration unfolding far from where she sat.

Gently dabbing at her tears, a profound sense of loneliness enveloped her, a feeling alien to her even in the past two years when everyone and everything kept reminding her that Dylan was gone.

Olivia’s solitude was short-lived.

Leyla fell ill with a fever after catching a cold while playing in the yard.

Upon receiving the phone call, Olivia hurried to the hospital.

Thankfully, she had hired an experienced nanny who promptly escorted Leyla to the hospital.

Although the antipyretic injection had temporarily alleviated the fever, the doctor advised them to remain vigilant as Leyla might experience a recurrence of the fever overnight.

In the transfusion room, Olivia took Leyla from the nanny’s care.

The nanny apologized softly, “I’m terribly sorry, Mrs.

Wright.

I assure you, I’ll exercise greater caution from now on.

Mrs.

Wright…

in

she quickly regained her composure and

ill from time to time is actually quite

visibly relieved upon hearing

cradled Leyla

a severe fever, but now she nestled obediently in Olivia’s

didn’t let them

smile, she

their interaction, the nanny proposed,

Wright, it’s dinner time.

I bring some food for

not to have dinner at the

to drink, she gently declined,

have dinner

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