Reborn, Reawakened, Rekindled

Chapter 318

I didn’t necessanly have to personally pick up Hannah’s parents, but I wanted to see where Oscar grew up.

At night, I slept in his room. It was clean and simple, with a few photos of Oscar from his student days. I stared at these pictures for a long time as my eyes got all misty

That night, I dreamed of Oscar He was working part time in a bar, and Lasked him ‘Oscar, how have you been?”

Oscar gave me a bright and cheerful smile, his voice still clear “Ms. Finch, I’m doing alright. There’s no need to worry about me

When I woke up. I found my pillow wet with tears, and outside the door, I heard the voice of Oscar’s mother, Mia Morse. ‘Ms. Finch, time for breakfast”

“Ainight” I replied and got up

I had planned to leave after breakfast, but before I could, someone came to see Oscars father, Henry Morse, to discuss some land sale matters I didn’t understand the details, so I had to wait.

I ended up waiting all day, so my plan to return to Rosemont was delayed by another day.

That night, something unexpected happened.

I couldn’t sleep due to the things on my mind, and Neil called. I didn’t reject the call and hastily picked up.

“Irene, where are you? How can you go so far all by yourself? The voice on the other end was Faith Whitmore’s She sounded worried but also a little bit happy. “I’m glad you’re still willing to pick up Neil’s calls.”

“Maam, I’m fine. I’m here to fetch Oscar’s parents.” I was a bit sleepy, but this call woke me up, and soon my eyes were wide open as I listened to Faith’s voice.

calling

say, Faith spoke again. “Trene, I’m completely against Neil and Bonnie dating. I just gave him a piece of my mind today. If he insists on being with Bonnie, I’ll cut

were here, he’d probably

that. These are Neil’s choices, and he and I really

return to Sapphire River Community, let me know. I’ll come to see you I heard your mother woke

figured my mom wouldn’t want to see Faith, so I had to tactfully refuse. “Maam, my mom needs to rest for now, and I don’t want her to know about certain unpleasant things so soon. Once she’s better, Ill invite you

was silent for a while and then sighed. I could hear her

for you Faith finally said, resignedly.

when Neil’s voice came through. “When are you coming

at the time on my phone. It was already half past midnight. Even if I set off early

footsteps outside my window. I thought it was Henry and Mia,

you at Sapphire River Community Neil spoke in a low voice, as if he were

awkward, as if the villa in Sapphire River Community had become

that he seemed to want to tell me something he couldn’t say over the

figuring out how to respond, I suddenly smelled smoke

outside again and saw flickers of

set in, and I quickly jumped off the bed, flung open the window, and saw that the Morse family’s

The smoke made me cough, and Neil asked.

up, immediately dialing the

out of my room Bailey lived next door, and Henry and Mia were in the room opposite mine, but they were all sound asleep and didn’t seem to have noticed the fire

on it frantically while yelling

Bailey to finally open his door in a panic. He looked at the

glass roof, so the smoke couldn’t escape, and my throat was already feeling unconfortable. But Henry

their door, and they finally woke