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When There Is Nothing Left But Love novel (Ashton and Scarlett ) novel Chapter 1546

In the old classroom, there were about more than ten children of different ages lining up in two rows. All of them were dressed in the same type of white hospital gown. Apart from feeling anxious due to the arrival of the strangers, they looked clean without any visible wounds. Based on my observation, there were no physical signs which implied that they had gone through a traumatic experience.

Heaving a sigh of relief, I was thankful that none of the children was in a pathetic state as imagined by me earlier.

Ashton stepped onto the stage and glanced at them before he asked Joseph, “Have you done a background check for all of them?”

Joseph replied respectfully, “Yes, most of the children’s information is well kept in the orphanage of M Country, except for these children. Basically, there isn’t any record for them. Thus, they are sent here temporarily.”

Ashton did not really react to his words. Squinting his eyes, his mind drifted into contemplation.

On the instant, the whole classroom was in pin-drop silence. At the moment, only the heavy panting of the children due to their anxiety was still audible.

 

Audrey was excited as it was her first time seeing many children at the same time. When Ashton was still deep in his thought, she took the chance to squeeze out from my back and walked toward them.

I instinctively stretched out my hand, yet I was not in time to hold her back.

 

Fortunately, Gregory reacted fast and moved forward instantaneously. Grabbing hold of Audrey’s hand, he accompanied her to inspect all the children one by one.

Those who lined up in the first row were about Drew’s age. Since they were younger, they looked a bit shy and timid. Audrey just roughly browsed through the first row before she held Gregory’s hand and moved on with the second row.

All of a sudden, she came to a halt in front of a boy whose body size appeared to be the smallest. Her big round eyes were glued to him.

After gazing at him for a while, she took out a lollipop from her pocket and handed it to him. “Take this.”

However, the boy was indifferent and did not accept it.

Out of curiosity, I looked intently at the boy. For a split second, I was stunned as he looked familiar to me. However, when I took a closer look at him, the sense of familiarity was gone. My heart flinched at the sight of his sunken cheeks and dry skin due to malnutrition.

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