Ms. Escape Marrying to Run Fighting to Rise novel Chapter 296

Chapter 296 You’ll Understand Then

“Grandpa.” Nina sniffled, still trying to call for Gabriel on Noah’s behalf.

Noah managed to pull the urn into his lap.

“Grandpa,” he echoed, his own voice trembling.

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He tried to pry the urn open while talking to it. “Grandpa, Noah here. Grandpa, come out.”

Nina helped Noah try to open the box.

The urn was sealed tightly; this time, their little fingers couldn’t budge it.

Unable to open it, they decided to climb out and find a tool.

But when they tried to climb, they realized they couldn’t.

The coffin was deep, its walls smooth.

Most crucially, there was no stool inside anymore.

Nina couldn’t use it as a step.

“How out?” Nina asked, her little face utterly confused.

Noah shook his head. “Don’t know.”

They looked at each other, and finally both their lips started trembling.

Holding the urn, they burst into loud sobs.

Noah, even while crying, didn’t stop trying to open Gabriel’s urn.

The children’s crying from inside the mourning hall carried out into the courtyard.

The adults outside first thought they were hearing things.

But as the crying continued, their expressions grew increasingly bewildered and uneasy.

“My stress must be getting to me. I think I’m hearing things.”

“I hear a child crying. Do you?”

“Yeah…”

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“Why does it sound like it’s coming from the mourning hall?”

“I hear it, too…”

“What’s going on? Is this some kind of haunting?”

It was still daytime. The sudden sound of faint crying from the hall containing the coffin thoroughly spooked everyone.

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Just as the adults were trying to hold back their fear and looking toward the hall, Harper and William in the crowd both turned pale.

They recognized the cries.

It was their children.

Both adults broke into a run toward the mourning hall.

Sure enough, inside the coffin, they found two little tear-streaked faces.

The children didn’t understand permanent separation.

The adults did.

Gabriel was gone. He wouldn’t wake up.

Noah kept crying. Nina, seeing that the adults wouldn’t help, also cried in frustration.

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Amid the sobbing, Harper firmly took the urn. She and William each carried a child away.

“Nina, don’t cry.” William soothed, not scolding her.

He said, “That box can’t be opened. Gabriel is inside, sleeping very soundly. Opening it would disturb him. Nina, didn’t your mommy teach you not to disturb people when they’re sleeping?”

Nina nodded tearfully.

After nodding, she asked, “Grandpa, when he wake?”

The question made William’s heart ache.

He said, “He’s very, very tired. He needs to sleep for a long, long time. I don’t know when he’ll wake up. Maybe when you’re all grown up-when Noah’s grown up too-you’ll understand then.”

Harper and William comforted them.

It took a long time, but eventually, the little ones seemed to calm down.

They both napped. After waking up and having a meal, they ended up squatting together in the courtyard, playing with bugs, and finally not mentioning Gabriel anymore.

“Nina, bug bite me,” Noah tattled, pointing at an insect on the ground.

Nina, holding a plump worm, looked puzzled. “No bite.”

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