Chapter 672

Chapter 672: Frowning, Harlee opened it, thinking it might be Etta pulling one of her usual stunts.

However, to her surprise, she found her mother.

Usually, Skyla would be asleep at this hour.

What was going on? Mom? Why are you still awake? Harlee asked, slightly surprised.

Skyla stood awkwardly, her smile strained.

After a moment, she hesitantly asked, Harlee, may I come in? I need to talk to you.

Of course, Harlee replied, stepping aside to let Skyla in.

They sat together on the sofa, but Skyla appeared burdened, unsure of how to begin.

Several times she tried to speak, only to stop short.

Skyla believed Nyomis words without hesitation.

Nyomis sharp memory could recount events from many years ago, and there was no plausible reason for her to fabricate such a claim.

Yet, Skyla felt conflicted.

her daughter with compassion or stay silent to avoid stirring up painful memories? After wrestling with her thoughts, she resolved

a child… Harlee felt

flicker of recognition, she couldnt place where she might have seen Nyomi before,

added, Nyomi mentioned

a small girl, always wandering

an instant, a surge

She remembered now.

indeed crossed paths with her in that treasured nook of her

place was her secret refuge, especially on the days Averie shooed

who was holding a piece of bread, and

on, Nyomi had become a guardian angel of sorts, occasionally appearing with treatssometimes delectable pastries, other

encounters, Nyomi vanished without a

the kind elderly woman

twists of fate

melancholy in Harlees eyes, unable

took Harlees hands

my carelessness that lost you,

a subtle

was precisely what she had predicted, and that was why she had kept her suffering in

Skylas

Mom, dont blame yourself.

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