The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1358

Reminiscing the memories she had when Sheryl was a little kid, she always admired other kids who were cradled and caressed by their mothers. Even though she was too young to understand many things, she knew that those kids were lucky to be so loved and protected. In her desire not to trigger self-pity, she would pretend as if she didn't care. While, in fact, deep inside her, she would always hide in a corner and stare at pictures of mothers and kids from books and magazines, and envied them. Sometimes when she saw them in public, she even wanted to get close to them and steal a little bit of love from these kids.

All her life while growing up she had several questions in mind like, why did her mother dislike her and abandon her? Was it because she was not good enough? She couldn't help thinking about it. However, as time healed everything, she learned to embrace the truth and just move on with her life leaving those questions unanswered.

Now, reminiscing all these memories, she remembered how she wanted to be loved and protected like other kids! How she wanted her mother to return to her! Thus, she worked hard and tried to achieve everything perfectly on her own since she was young, hoping to bring her mother back.

However, when she grew up a little bit, she realized that no matter what she would do, her mother would never take notice of her. Though that fact was frustrating, she learned to accept it gradually, like she always did while growing up. To beat the loneliness and envy, she just comforted herself by being grateful to her grandma who loved her more than anything, which was enough for her. As time went by, she abandoned the idea of winning her mother's love and lived happily with her grandma. During those times, she felt quite contented even without her mother.

However, from that moment on, she had made a decision, a promise to herself that, if she would have kids in the future, she would give them all the love she had and even protect them with her own life, to make up for her loss during her childhood. She didn't want her kids to suffer the same fate she had endured, for she knew how painful and desolate it felt to be abandoned by your own parents.

However, to her despair, by the way things turned out now, it appeared that she couldn't even protect her babies! Worst was, now she had Shirley missing, and she had no idea where she was or whether she was in a good condition or not. Thinking about these, she realized that she wasn't even a qualified mother like her own mother had been. Loads of thoughts were crossing her minds, and Sheryl closed her eyes miserably.

"Sher, get up and take some pills. These will help you relax," Nancy said softly. All of a sudden, she was pulled back to reality by Nancy's words. Sheryl opened her eyes and saw Nancy blowing cold the hot water in the cup while handing her some pills on the other hand. She couldn't help but feel warmed and touched by Nancy's gesture of kindness.

Determined to stay with her in case she needed her, Nancy didn't notice Sheryl's absent-mindedness. She came over to Sheryl, helped her sit up, and put a pillow under her back to let her lean on the headboard. With her position right now, Sheryl felt much more comfortable. However, Nancy was bothered that her skin felt warm as she held on her while helping her to get up. Instinctively, she touched the palm of her hands to her forehead to check if she was having a fever. Walking over to the medicine cabinet, Nancy took out a thermometer to take her temperature.

"Oh my goodness, its 38.5 degrees!" Seeing that the temperature reading was high, Nancy screamed as she held on the thermometer. Sheryl had a severe fever. Nancy panicked and told Sheryl to take the pills immediately. Then she rushed out to call Charles over the phone to let him know about Sheryl's condition.

The phone rang for a long time, but nobody answered. After a few tries, Nancy still got no answer, but when Nancy almost gave up, Charles picked up the phone.

"Mr. Lu, it's urgent! Sheryl is seriously sick and has a high fever. Are you available to go home and accompany her?" By heart, Nancy knew that Sheryl got sick because of Shirley's disappearance and Charles' attitude to her. She hoped that Charles could go home to be with Sheryl, which could possibly relieve Sheryl's pain at least to some extent.

Even though Charles had turned the cold shoulder on Sheryl recently, Nancy knew how much they loved each other as reflected by the passionate way they lived their daily life. Not in her wildest imaginations would she think that Charles would leave Sheryl alone like that after knowing her condition.

On the other end of the line, Charles heard Nancy's words as well as the noise of the mild breeze. 'Maybe she is on the balcony now when she makes the call, ' Charles thought randomly.

Restraining himself, however, he couldn't give her a positive answer, because he knew that he must be tough and shouldn't be softened this time. He must show Sheryl that he could stand not talking to her and lending a deaf ear to her.