"Little lan, it's getting late.I have to go now."
"Alright” came a flat response from lan, who was playing a game in the room.Amora rose from her spot and proceeded to put on her socks, ready to leave.
"So will you be coming tonight?"
"What's that?"
"You said you would come over every night to treat Daddy's illness."
lan's fingers did not stop tapping on the game controller while his eyes remained glued to the screen.
With that listless demeanor of his, if Amora had not been staying with the boy in the same room, she might have suspected that he wasn't the one who said those words.
Amora lowered her eyes.
For a moment there, she thought about telling him that she would not be coming that night.
In fact, she would not be coming anymore.
She didn't want to treat his daddy's illness again if she could help it.
But as she stood there gazing at the boy's little head and then at the medicine left on the table, she nodded in the end.
"Yes, of course I'll come.You should go to sleep after you put on your pajamas, understand? I will come to check on you as soon as I arrive, alright?"
The boy remained quiet.
He felt embarrassed now that his secret had been discovered.
But he nodded in the end before shifting his focus back to the game.
Amora left the house after that, feeling relieved.Half an hour later, at the preschool in Old Town.
"Mommy, finally! There you are! I thought you don't want us anymore."
Reaching the preschool at half-past four was not considered late.
But as soon as she got there, her two little kids came running toward her.
They leaped into her embrace and began to whine like the children they were.
Well, Vivian did most of the whining.
Matteo, on the other hand, just stood in front of his mother, carrying his schoolbag.
Amora instantly cracked a smile.
She squatted down and took her two precious kids in her arMs."Now, why wouldn't I want you two? There's nothing I want in the world other than the two of you."
"Really?"
Vivian was happy to hear that.
She gave Amora a tight hug and kissed her on the cheek.
Meanwhile, Matteo merely hugged her.
From that hug, the clever boy could sense that something was amiss about their mommy.
Her smile seemed rather unnatural.
Is it possible that...
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