Desires Die Hard

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Meanwhile, in a hospital in Nordeny.

The doctor had just drawn some blood from Nathaniel. The boy was currently resting quietly in his mother’s arms as they waited for the results of the blood work to be out.

They waited in a tense silence. Ellie was clearly drowning in guilt. “I’m so sorry, Anya. It’s all my fault. I should’ve kept a closer eye on them”

“Don’t blame yourself, Ellie Kids get fevers all the time. It’s not your fault.” Anya honestly didn’t blame her aunt at all. The woman had taken them in and helped Anya raise her children.

She was the reason Anya could get a job and leave for work every day without worrying about her angels.

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“Look at how miserable Nathaniel looks. I feel terrible,” Ellie whispered. She was clearly heartbroken. The woman loved and cared for the twins as if they were her own.

“It’ll be fine.” Anya said to her aunt. She placed her hand over the woman’s hand and squeezed it slightly. Her aunt’s hand was small in her own, her skin lined with the barest of wrinkles. “It’s just a fever, Ellie. Nathaniel’s going to be fine.”

Anya was right. It was just a fever. It wasn’t anything serious. Ellie nodded and tried to calm her worrying heart.

“Mom, it doesn’t hurt. I feel fine,” Nathaniel blurted out suddenly. He had been resting quietly within Anya’s arms while Anya spoke to Ellie when the string of words erupted from his lips clumsily. He was still fumbling with his sentences.

But Anya heard her son loud and clear.

The young woman felt something warm and fuzzy settle in her chest. She gazed down at the boy and pressed a soft kiss to his cheek. “Mom knows. You’re more than fine. You’re amazing. Like Superman!”

“Yup.” The boy nodded. “I’m Superman.”

“That’s right. Nathaniel’s just like Superman.”

While Anya showered Nathaniel with soft praises, Eudora placed her small hand on her brother’s forehead and started mumbling unintelligibly.

Anya and Ellie couldn’t understand any of the girl’s garbled words

But Nathaniel could.

He reached out and placed his own small palm on his sister’s forehead. “I’m okay, Dora”

Eudora heard that and nodded quietly.

to have a language that they shared between

Nathaniel and kept waiting. After half an hour, the report for the

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Nathaniel down and went off to collect the report. Meanwhile, Nathaniel and Eudora waited by Ellie’s

they waited for their mother to return, Nathaniel stared at the other children

mothers with

itself

talk, he was also beginning

at the other kids. They had

would drive a dagger

had a father.

didn’t. His sister

wasn’t feeling well now though and his discomfort prevented his mind from dwelling on the thought. The boy set the thought aside and kept waiting patiently for his mother’s

Nathaniel and the results of Nathaniel’s blood work to the doctor. The doctor studied the report and the figures indicating Nathaniel’s white

“Does he need to be put

for the thermometer and took Nathaniel’s temperature. After a moment, he took a look at the temperature shown on the device. “The fever seems to have gone down but we can’t be sure if it’ll come back again.”

Anya

days before going down on the fourth. Usually, that’s when the rashes break out,” the doctor explained patiently to the young woman. “You should monitor his temperature regularly and try to keep the fever down.

bring him

the doctor’s advice to memory dutifully.

They couldn’t get much sleep that night. They had to wake up every hour to take Nathaniel’s temperature. If the fever hadn’t gotten worse,

went on for another

The fever went

The rashes appeared.

the rashes faded. Nathaniel

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treat after his bout of illness. She called Anya and told her niece that she would like to take Nathaniel

gotten their mother’s permission to bring them out, Ellie took

been worried that the MacMillans and the Weltons might find out about the kids and had tried to keep their existence a secret. That meant that

sight of the enormous mall that

eyes as they explored

mischievous and playful of the