Chapter 138 An Ambiguous Bond

"It was Billy's mom!" Nathan clenched his little fists, speaking excitedly. "She called us fatherless and said even worse things..."

Nathan bit his lip, unable to finish his sentence, his face stubbornly red and his eyes welling up with tears.

"Just ignore her, she's doing it on purpose!" Noah said, trying to sound mature to his little brother, though his eyes were red too.

Sadie bit her lip, silent, acutely aware of how deeply those words wounded her children...

Once upon a time, she endured whatever treatment they dished out, the bullying, the humiliation. But this time, she simply could not tolerate it... "She's definitely going to have bad luck," Brenda fumed with anger.

"Has her fever gone down?" Sadie deftly changed the subject.

Checking the thermometer, Noah furrowed his little brows, "Mommy, we need to give Mia some fever-reducing medicine."

"I'll go get the medicine," Nathan said, trotting off on his little legs to fetch the first-aid kit.

Brenda found the fever reducer and gave it to Mia.

she spat out the majority of the medicine, only managing to ingest a small

was now frantic with worry. Mia had always been weaker of the three children since birth, so Sadie always took extra care of

had improved greatly over the past six months. Today, it was probably her intense crying that inflamed her

and tending to her, it

clothes, Sadie said to Brenda, "Brenda, I have to go to work now. It'll be tough tonight. Please make sure Mia drinks plenty of water, keep wiping her down with a wet towel; if her temperature hasn't dropped by

to work at this hour?" Brenda couldn't

from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., and I'm already running very late."

yogurt, "Don't worry, Mommy, we'll take good care of Mia." "Mmm-hmm." Tears welled up in Sadie's

hailed a cab and rushed to DTT Bar. On the ride in, she nibbled on the sandwich and drank the yogurt, her thoughts on her children,

any suffering, but she couldn't let her

and Kathleen were shameless, rich, and idle. She couldn't afford to spend

should consider changing the

current goal was to

her way in when an unfamiliar number called her. Assuming that it was DTT, she hurriedly

in tonight?" It was Jonny,

deal with the emergency and I left

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