Chapter 41

After Lucian went on a business trip, Allison returned to her old life, bouncing between the hospital and school daily.

Grace was suffering from severe kidney failure. Even though the Flanagan family was footing the medical bills, the only cure was a kidney transplant, but they couldn’t find a suitable donor.

As Grace’s condition worsened, her dialysis frequency increased from once every two weeks to once a week.

At this point, a light rain began to fall.

Allison stood before Joshua’s tombstone, carefully cleaning the weeds around it. She bent down and placed some fresh flowers in front of it.

She gently stroked the picture of the middle–aged man on the stone, her eyes brimming with tears.

A lot had happened recently, and she was feeling the pressure. Still, she couldn’t save her mother. Speaking softly, she asked, “Dad, what would you and Ricky do if you were still here?*

still remembers the day her father died. He was supposed to be handling some business for the Flanagan family. Initially, it was supposed to be

that year. Facing the crushing weight of a heavy

her father and brother’s death, the Flanagan

the whole thing, but what good

a while. Back then, Leah arranged for Grace and Allison to move into a small

of income was cut off. Grace gradually recovered and

said that it was blood money, earned with her husband’s and son’s lives, and she couldn’t use

Allison would overhear some of the Flanagan servants gossiping in the kitchen:

death was strange, they say…”

that day. He should’ve been the

was young. Now she has a

little girl is

be afraid of?

ten–year–old Allison did understand.

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