Billionaire, Let's Divorce! by BELLA

Chapter 0278

ANASTASIA

I sat beside Amie's hospital bed,watching as her pencil moved deftly across the sketchbook. Her brows furrowed in concentration and her eyes shined with creativity.

"I'm guessing that is us?" I pointed to her drawing of two caricature bearing semblance to both of us, minus the feet all pointing in one direction.

"Yes, mommy. It's us baking tasty cookies in the kitchen. I'm just about to add Aunt Clara since she likes your cookies too. She stated without breaking her concentration.

"And Dennis?"

She paused, her pencil hovering over the sketchbook for a while before she shrugged and resumed sketching. "I will add him too. After Aunt Clara anyway. I want to go home soon, mommy. It's lonely here and smells awfully like drugs."

I felt a bit of sadness, knowing I'd have to leave her soon. I have never been separated from her for as long as a complete day and now I was about to be apart from her for a week. A whole week! "Hey, baby, I need to talk to you about something." I began, trying to sound gentle.

Amie looked up, her eyes sparkling with curiosity. "What is it, Mommy?"

find the right words to use. "I have to go away for a few days. It has to do with mummy's

down at her sketchbook, twiddling the pencil in her grip and I knew then that her concentration was gone. "Leave the hospital? When can

to promise mommy that you will be a good girl and listen to the nurses, okay?" Amie's lower lip trembled, and she looked at me with tears in her eyes. "I don't like it here. I want to go home with you. Why can't I come with you for a few days? I promise to behave, please." There was a pout

The nurses are going to take good care of you. And when I come back, I'll bring you lots of new toys and

sniffed, wiping her nose on her sleeve. Her expression brightened up a

pen. But I was unable to come up

of the nurses nearby chimed in, "Oh that, I think

rebuke and she knew it. That usual pout

this was one of the reasons I was especially hesitant to leave Amie. She was

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her or worse. I also worried. about her getting

have to promise me you'll

She frowned, mumbling.