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Charles leaned in and kissed Yolanda gently on the cheek. “Don’t worry, William. I’ve always treated Yolandal

well.”

Yolanda gave a small smile and tucked the blanket around William. “Just focus on resting, okay? Stop worrying about the orphanage. I’ll go check on the kids in a bit.”

William closed his eyes, exhaustion written all over his face. “Yolanda, you’ve been working so hard these years and already given so much to the orphanage. If I really can’t make it, I won’t let those kids become your

burden

“There have been people trying to buy the orphanage, but I always refused. The person in charge has a bad reputation, and I was worried she wouldn’t treat the kids right. I-

Yolanda squeezed his hand. “That’s enough, William. If you keep talking like this, I’m going to get mad.”

William smiled and gently patted the back of her hand. “I’m going to get some sleep now. Thanks for coming all the way here so late. You should head home, too. Get some rest before work tomorrow.”

Yolanda felt ashamed inside. Just a few days after she married Charles, Athena had passed away.

Back when Athena was alive, she always told Yolanda that having a pretty face was a blessing, but if girls only played the beauty card, they were doomed.

She told Yolanda to have a job to stand on her own, or else people would just push her around.

At that time, Yolanda had already closed her studio and became a stay–at–home wife. Because she’d gone against Athena’s advice, she never dared to admit it, and ended up hiding it for two whole years.

If William ever found out Yolanda was a stay–at–home wife now, he’d probably be disappointed.

put their hearts into teaching every girl there, just hoping they’d study hard and be able

And

was the one who ended

emotions. When she and Charles were on the way back home, she heard Charles ask, “Is William not

up at the pitch–black sky. I’m

she could finish, Charles’s phone rang. It was from a company executive. He raised his

his hair getting tousled by the night wind, but he still had that air of elegance about him. “Alright.

the company execs was just admitted to the hospital. It’s at one of the hospitals Sinclair Group invested in. I need to go

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management were Charles’s trusted allies, while the rest backed his

was a storm of power struggles brewing underneath. At such a critical moment, if anything happened

in any of that. Instead of heading home, she drove for an hour straight to the

the yard for William to come back. When they saw Yolanda, they all stood up quietly. No one made

him. We made these paper cranes. Joey said if we

soon. He asked me to

right away, shouting as they ran, “We’ll go to bed now!

we’ll give you

for

string of paper

kids already tucked into bed, sweetly saying goodnight

can schedule the surgery soon. You- Before he could finish, his phone buzzed with another

an hour, but he never called back. She tried calling him again, but he didn’t pick up.

been William’s main physician for a long time. He was a good man and wouldn’t joke

of surprise in his eyes, quickly replaced

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