As expected, John left the castle before noon and returned to his place of residence in C Island. He stayed there.
Nina took care of the two children herself. She was never more than three meters away from them and had a lot of interaction with them.
Noah and Vicente tried their best to persuade her to let John return, but Nina just said, "It's impossible."
"Okay." Vicente curled her lips and sighed. She thought, 'I have said so much, but Nina still refuses to let John back. What do I do now?'
She thought hard but did not come up with any other way.
It was late and time to go to bed.
Nina added a big bed to the twins' room. She stayed there with her children.
Vicente had not been able to hold the children for days. Tonight, when Nina was about to shut the door, she entered.
"What are you doing? Be careful. I just lulled them to sleep." Nina looked at Vicente, who bent over and held one of the babies in her arms.
"Yeah, I know. You haven't asked me to hold the children for a week. I've missed them." Looking at the babies, Vicente resisted the urge to pinch their cheeks. She was afraid to wake them up.
If she did, they would surely cry incessantly and simultaneously.
Vicente carefully adjusted her grip, allowing the baby to be cradled nicely in her arms. The baby stirred and moved. As he wrinkled his face, Vicente's heart leapt to her throat.
"My dear, is he going to wake up?" Before the baby could open his eyes, Vicente quickly put him back in the crib. Seeing that the child went right back to sleep, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, she looked at Don again. She had not held him enough.
"That's enough." Nina opened the door wide and signaled to Vicente to leave.
Vicente looked at the two children reluctantly. "Nina, how about I sleep here with you tonight so that I can hug the children tomorrow morning?"
"No." Nina walked toward Vicente, pulled her tie, and shoved her out the door. "Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because we're good friends. Don't you know that it's inappropriate for a man and a woman to be so close to each other? Go back to your own room."
Then, Nina closed the door.
Vicente was left stunned and standing outside. She opened her mouth wide as a thought occurred to her.
She took off her tie and went quickly to see Noah.
There was a sudden knock on his door. Noah stopped his work and went to see who it was.
"What's wrong?" He was a little surprised to see Vicente.
Vicente went straight in and then turned to Noah. "I suspect that Nina has lost some of her memories other than forgetting John."
"She has lost some of her memories of her past two years in Lexingport City. I thought we already knew that." Noah closed the door, grabbed a chair for Vicente, and let her sit down.
Vicente slumped into the chair and shook her head. "No. She could remember people and things from Lexingport City. She just couldn't place them. Look at the things that Leon told her about Michelle and Emma. She remembered them.
But I think she has forgotten things that happened here. For example, I just went to see her right now, and she didn't know that I'm..."
Vicente trailed off.
She bit her lip. She almost spilled the beans just now about her really being a woman.
"You are what?" Noah noticed Vicente's panic.
"Nothing. But Nina's lost her recent memories of C Island." Vicente changed the subject. "Did Albert inject her with a poisonous drug? What a vicious man! That drug had not been successfully developed when Nina was injected with it. Now she has a poor memory. She even takes you for John."
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