Right Person, Wrong Time

Chapter 299 Reunion

Benedict noticed the stunned look on Nicole’s face and the smile on his face grew.

“You were still young back then. Although you weren’t in your twenties yet, you were a decent young lady.”

As she stared at him, old memories seemed to gradually unfold in her mind.

Back when her mother was ill, Nicole used to go on strolls with her. That was when she bumped into an eccentric yet generous old man.

The old man talked a lot and would often stop to chat with Nicole and her mother. As time passed, she slowly began to befriend the old man. However, he disappeared one day. When Nicole asked the doctors in the hospital, they told her that his family had picked him up and that they could not disclose his address.

“Y-You’re the old man from the hospital?!” Nicole asked with uncertainty.

Although the old man back in the hospital was very talkative, he had black hair and looked high in spirits.

face. He could barely stand on

the face of Nicole’s

doctor said that they’d detected a brain tumor. My son

why he left without

or so. While prioritizing her studies, she had to take care of her mother as well. She really cherished the old man’s presence because

would just politely greet him each time they met. She never thought that the old man would turn out to be Old Mr. Benedict of the

left without saying goodbye, my mother was making a fuss about you. She complained that you didn’t

occupied to even visit him. He even insisted on Nicole’s mother becoming his goddaughter, saying that they could look after each other at the

then, Madeline was

for you after that, but there was no news. After so many years, I thought you would just be a passing memory. I did not expect

was much older because reminiscing about the

while her hands on the table tightened

Benedict’s departure, her mother’s condition had suddenly deteriorated. That