Chapter 50
“Anne Anne!” Angeline croaked out softly, throat clogged with pain.
Tears finally flowed freely from her eyes. “Anne!”
Angeline clutched onto Anne’s arm, crying. “You promised you’d make me beef stew and meatballs!”
She didn’t want Ned anymore. She really didn’t want him anymore. She only wanted Anne to come back to life.
Zachary’s eyes reddened as he stood outside the morgue listening to Angeline sob her heart out. He rarely ever saw her cry when they grew up together.
Angeline didn’t even cry when she woke up from her coma only to hear that her beloved Ned had amnesia and lost his past memories. Angeline had only wiped her tears away and said she would make Ned regain his
memories.
She had never had such a terrible breakdown.
Zachary had thought Angeline was as cold and distant as others said and that she was able to calmly deal
with whatever obstacles she faced.
Zachary waited outside the morgue for nearly two hours until the sounds of crying ceased from within. Only
then did he go to the door and push it open just the slightest, peeking in.
Angeline was sitting beside Anne who lay on the table, her hair frizzy and eyes reddened. She was pressing
Anne’s stiff hand against her cheek and appeared dazed. It seemed like Angeline had grown numb to the
entire situation.
Zachary was about to enter the morgue when he heard Ingrid’s voice coming from the elevator.
“Speak nicely later when you see Angie. Anne was her adoptive mother, you shouldn’t have pushed her no
matter what…”
Ingrid had heard that Angeline was here at the hospital, so she’d come with Ned, who was boasting a cast
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