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.

majority of the medicine,

Mia had always been weaker of the three children since birth,

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

the medicine and tending to her, it was already 8:20

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 the time I get

you have to

p.m., and I'm already running very late." Sadie

take this sandwich with you." "And this too." Nathan came running out with a box of yogurt, "Don't worry, Mommy, we'll take good care of Mia." "Mmm-hmm." Tears welled up in Sadie's eyes, "Thank you, Noah, Nathan. I need to get going now. Be good, you two!" "We

ride in, she nibbled on the sandwich and drank the yogurt, her thoughts on her children, her eyes couldn't help but well up

suffering, but she couldn't let

and Kathleen were shameless, rich, and idle. She couldn't afford to spend neither

consider changing the

spending money, so her current goal was to earn as much as

her way in when an unfamiliar number called her. Assuming that it was

coming in tonight?"

I had to deal with the emergency and I left late.

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