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.

coughing was relentless. Choking, she spat out the majority of the medicine, only managing to

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

attentive care, Mia's health had improved greatly over the past six months. Today, it was probably her intense crying that inflamed her

and tending to

Mia drinks plenty of water, keep wiping

where do you have to work at this hour?"

to 10:30 p.m., and I'm already running very late." Sadie quickly slipped into

wait!" Noah chased after her and handed her a bag, "You haven't had dinner, 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

the sandwich and drank the yogurt, her thoughts on her

could bear any hardship, any suffering, but

She couldn't afford to spend neither her time nor energy to

should consider

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

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

Aren't you coming in tonight?" It was Jonny, the owner

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

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