Juan’s large eyes gleamed as he pouted. Mommy’s actually making such a joke, but it’s not funny at all!

“Okay, let’s eat.”

Evan placed the fork into Nicole’s hand. For the entire dinner, Nicole only ate the vegetables. She did not dare to touch the roasted fish which she thought had cried out in pain.

After dinner, the four children, Sheila and Stephen chatted in the living room. As she did not dare to stay for long, she came up with an excuse and returned to her bedroom.

Kyle, who was a good observer, gazed at her back and remarked, “Mommy’s complexion doesn’t seem too good.”

Avril smiled. “Well, she’s just gotten back together with your Dad. This is all because of him. You should settle the score with him instead.”

The four of them fell silent, not really understand what she was saying. Juan asked, “Are you saying that Daddy’s bullying Mommy?”

Avril nodded. “But, in my opinion, both of them are willing parties. You little brats shouldn’t be too nosy about what the adults are doing.”

Nina sighed. “Ms. Avril is right. Daddy and Mommy keep on separating and getting back together. Since we can’t do anything about it, let’s just not be nosy.”

“Yeah. Grandpa, tell us a story.”

“Okay, I’ll think of one.”

children affectionately, thinking that it was a source of comfort to tell

fulfilled his responsibility of raising Nicole. Now, he could make up for his regret by taking care of these kids

cut up some fruits and placed them on the table so they could eat and listen at

at her pale reflection in her mirror while losing herself in her thoughts. Chaotic images kept surfacing

could not figure out why she had mistaken Evan for Zane, and why she

in the mirror, curious to see if her face

bedroom door open and Evan entering, she quickly hid

poor complexion, Evan walked towards her, held her hand, and gently coaxed, “Go and bathe, then have a good

“Okay.” Nicole nodded gently.

exhaustion and bouts of hallucination would

forward to that, she grabbed her pajamas

temperature with his hand. It

a long bath to soothe

“Okay.”

into the white bathtub. Afterward,

steam encircled the bathroom, while the warm water flowed around her gently. It felt very soothing and relaxing, as

her

stench of blood. Opening her eyes in confusion, she became

bathing

which was so glaringly

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