Dolores raised up her head and the little girl’s face appeared in her eyes. The little girl was wearing a red cotton-padded jacket and her face was red with cold.
“Miss, what are you doing here?”
Dolores looked at the little girl and then she glanced at the surrounding. There wasn’t any adult around. Her gaze fell on the little girl again, “I am in a bad mood so that’s why I am here. Why are you here? Where is your family?”
“My mum is over there.” She pointed at the nearby kebab stall.
Dolores looked over by following the direction of her finger. There was a kebab stall and a woman who was wearing an old cotton-padded jacket and helping the customer to grill the kebab.
“I am here to help my mum.” The little girl was very obedient. Dolores touched her hair lightly, “You are a good girl.”
Maybe it was because that she herself had a child so she was less wary of the little girl.
“Do you want to have some kebabs? I can ask my mum to give you a lower price.”
Although Dolores didn't like to eat those kind of food, she took out her cash and gave it to the little girl. “I don’t eat this. The money is for you to buy some tasty food.”
The little girl blinked her eyes. She dared not to receive it when she was looking at that much of money. “Miss, what did you give me money?”
She was looking at the little girl. She saw herself in the past through the little girl when she and Jessica stayed in Country A. At that time, they were having financial hardship to support their living. The little girl was just like her who was also staying up late at night in the cold wind and she did all that just to earn a little money for food.
Thus, she felt sympathetic when she saw the little girl.
“It was because that your situation was similar as me and my mum in the past.”
The little girl blinked her eyes and asked, “Did you sell kebabs like us before?”
Dolores shook her head, “I didn’t sell it before but I worked for others and helped them to skewer the meat on the kebabs.”
The little girl smiled and it showed up her rows of white teeth. She took over the money from Dolores. “I will help you to go and take the kebabs.”
The little girl was running to the kebab stall. Dolores’s gaze became tender when she saw the little girl’s running back.
In her opinion, her life must be better after getting through the hardest days.
“I'll go and ask Dolores to come back.” Armand couldn't bear with it anymore. Dolores had stayed outside for a few hours in the cold winter, he was afraid that she would freeze out there.
Matthew did not change his mind.
“Aren't you heartbroken for her?” Armand stared at him inconceivability.
Didn't he love Dolores so deeply? Why was his heart so hardened at the moment?
“Tell me, why did the little girl appear?”
Matthew did not moved his gaze.
Armand barely considered before he said, “She was just a kid. I think maybe she saw Dolores sitting there alone for a long time and she was curious about so she ran over there to talk to her.”
Matthew turned his head and looked at Armand, “He knows her well.”
“What's the connection…” When his words stopped halfway, suddenly, he understood what Matthew meant. There was a possibility that little girl had some connection to Sampson.
“Dolores is so kind.” Armand said that because he saw Dolores was giving money to the little girl.
Matthew didn't say a word. However, his face seemed that he was not in a good mood. Dolores’s gaze seemed that she had thought of something when she was giving money to the little girl.
In his opinion, it must be some parts of the little girl that had made her recall of something.
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