Estelle's injuries were severe; her legs were cut off at the tendons. Even though they had been reattached after surgery, it was gonna take a while for her to recover.
Right now, she was stuck in a wheelchair.
At ten in the morning, the sun was blazing. As they left the house, Manley tentatively asked, “Babe, can you feel the sunshine?”
Estelle opened her eyes wide but didn't say anything.
Immediately, Manley said, “It's okay, take your time. The doctor said you're already healing pretty fast.”
Estelle smiled, “No need to comfort me, I've already accepted the fact that I'll live in darkness.”
That hit Manley right in the feels. After Estelle woke up and realized she was blind, she just sat there for a bit. She didn't cry or make a fuss.
But that just made him feel even worse.
He held her hand, pretending to be casual and said, “No worries, I can be your eyes from now on.”
Estelle laughed, “Josiah said he wanted to be my eyes, Xavier too. Now you're saying the same thing, if I had that many eyes, wouldn't I become a monster?”
Manley pushed her slowly along the cobblestone road, jokingly said, “Even if you're a monster, I'd still dig you!”
Estelle thought he was joking and asked, “What about your girlfriend?”
“She's not my girlfriend!” Manley said immediately.
“Then what is she?” Estelle raised an eyebrow.
Manley didn’t answer immediately.
He reluctantly admitted, “Okay, she's my girlfriend, but we've broken up!”
In fact, she always considered herself lucky. Every time she was in a pickle, someone was there to help her out. When she was starving in the orphanage, her grandpa and brother showed up. When she had an accident during a mission and was buried in the cold dark underground, someone was there with her. When she was seriously injured and close to death, Manley showed up again.
The fact that she was still alive was already more than she could ask for.
No one was lucky all the time, to have brushed with death and still come out unscathed.
Suddenly, she felt a twitch in her eyelid, she slowly opened her eyes and "looked" in the direction to her left, and said with a smile, “Since you're here, just come over, don't be shy!”
Not far off, Josiah looked at her in surprise and hesitantly walked over.
Estelle knew, Josiah had been here a few times before. He just watched her from a distance, probably hadn't figured out how to start a conversation with her yet.
Josiah stopped a few feet away, staring into the girl's eyes, before he could say anything, he felt a lump in his throat.

Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Find me in your labyrinth (Stella and Jonathan)
Looking forward to reading your updates....
May we please have more updates. Thank you...
May we have more updates please....
Thank you so much for the updates today. Now that Yvonne knows that Gonzalez has established who's really in charge of the Hansen house hold she and her mother are treading carefully. It will be interesting to see how Jenny will get the information to see if Adrian is paying for Norah....
With Adrian last comment, he's gonna get whipped and wonder what happened. Thank you so so much for the updates....
May we please have more updates. Thank you....
I would like for Norah to secretly have her memory restored and not tell anyone just to observe how everyone is trying to keep mess going....
Janice and Adrian don't want Norah to be with Xavier....
Thank you for the updates. You do keep us in suspense....
Curious as to how, what, when and where Norah will get her memory back of Xavier....