When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Audrey was finally free, but she huffed in frustration, “You’re mean, Mommy! I called you earlier, but you ignored me and let me get bullied!”

Oh? Is she mad at me?

I glanced toward Shaun as I was being falsely accused.

However, the boy’s eyes widened as he said seriously, “It’s true, Mrs. Fuller. We saw you earlier, but you ignored us. You left your wallet and Audrey before leaving.”

“Were you guys seeing things?” I was really telling the truth because I had been brought away since I arrived. I never even had the chance to go anywhere else.

Still, Shaun insisted, “No, Mrs. Fuller! That person looked exactly like you.”

There was a possibility if Audrey had seen it wrong since she was quite a careless person. But if Shaun was insistent on it, it had to mean that the woman really did look like me.

Even so, it didn’t mean that it was right for them to sneak out.

it wasn’t me. I would never leave my kids behind and ignore them. Don’t

should know that being outside was different from being at home. It wasn’t somewhere they should mess around as they please. Besides, as a mother, I should not be

anger vanished a while later. She looked aggrieved and guilty as she asked, “Was she really not

chimed in, “Your mom was with Summer and me the whole time. We

dropped her head. “Okay. I’m

you were wrong,” I said, my voice sterner than before. “But your mistake isn’t mistaking someone else for me. It’s that you sneaked out without telling any of us adults. Think about it. What would you do if Summer and I

to have drooped lower as she said, “I’d be

said. “You might have bumped into some bad guys and gotten kidnapped. Then, you wouldn’t

second. She didn’t dare to

have their soft-hearted moments, let alone a

and melted into goo the moment I saw my

her and swept her into my

Audrey couldn’t hold it in anymore as she cried loudly. Her tiny arms were wrapped around my neck as she bawled, “I was wrong,

with tears, and I couldn’t get anything else out of my mouth besides repeating,