The next morning, Lila arrived at the hospital with various concoctions with her. She knocked on the door and entered the ward. Both Janet and her parents were genuinely taken aback at her appearance. They hadn’t expected her, of all people, to pay a visit. 

After hearing everything from Ethan just the day before, Beal and Johanna just couldn’t bring themselves to be amicable with Lila now.

 “What are you doing here?” Beal asked. 

Contrary to his characteristic disposition as a loving father, he now pulled a long face to show his disgruntlement. Johanna didn’t even afford Lila a cursory glance and kept her gaze averted from the offending woman. 

Lila really didn’t expect the two of them to be so openly cold towards her. According to what Charis had told her, she started to cry bitterly in front of her parents and Janet.

“Dad, Mom! I am so sorry!” 

got down on

they had always treated her as their own flesh and blood. Regardless of the fact that Lila didn’t achieve

frown creased across her forehead. She

I deliberately concealed it from being

red and swollen from all her bawling. She even cowered in a subservient, apologetic manner before Janet. Janet was also frightened by this uncharacteristic

head away with deliberation. Her heart had also softened when she saw Lila’s genuine display of regretful emotion. Lila wiped her tears away and said, “Before Janet came into my life, Dad and Mom only loved me. I felt sad

about her actions and genuinely seemed overcome by guilt. But in actuality, her apology was coming from a place purely of fear and

beans out of sheer nervousness. Lila bowed before Janet so many times that her head actually suffered an injury. The wound was open and bleeding. The droplets of blood dripped down her forehead into her eyes. Both Beal and Johanna couldn’t

had witnessed Lila’s sincerity before her own eyes, her tone became more gentle and she said, “You are not utterly unreasonable.” Beal

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