"No... no, you're mine. How can you do this to me for another woman?"
Tears spreading on her face, she cried. "I was one of the victims, too." "How can you treat me like this?"
Dixon did not respond to her increasingly incisive questions until Maria choked up and then was taken away by Carney.
He gestured to Carney to bring her home. "Dixon!" shouted Maria, slapping the wheelchair, her eyes bloody. "You changed. How can you betray me?"
The office room gradually turned quiet after Maria was pushed out by Carney.
Dixon said no word to Maria’s accusations just now.
Elinor could see that Dixon was unhappy. She looked up at him and asked gently, "Dad, you...don't like my mother?"
Sitting on the chair, Dixon held Elinor's hand, saying, "Only children would say 'like' and 'dislike'." "Adults won't use these words anymore."
He only felt guilty about her physical disability.
He was willing to devote his rest of life to compensate Sonia, and even his life could be sacrificed.
"You like that sister in hospital, don't you?" Elinor came near to his knees and grasped his trousers. "Me, too." said she innocently and wonderingly.
She choked up. "If only she were my biological mother..."
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