Hold My Tear, I’m Getting My Wife Back!

Chapter 144

Leanne stepped into the hospital room as Mary had finished her lunch.

Sarah was clearing away the barely touched meal tray with concern. “You can’t keep skipping meals, ma’am. Your body needs strength.”

“I just can’t eat,” Mary sighed from her reclined position on the bed.

As Sarah turned to leave, she saw Leanne, and her face lit up with relief. “Look who’s here, ma’am!”

Leanne called out softly, “Mary.”

For a fleeting moment, joy sparkled in Mary’s eyes, and she sat up eagerly, but then, for some reason, her spirit seemed to deflate. She turned away, lying back down, and pulled the blanket over herself.

She was shutting the world out.

Sarah continued fussing. “Leanne, please, talk some sense into her. She’s hardly eaten a thing these days.”

Leanne approached the bed and teased the lump under the blankets, “What’s wrong? Don’t

see me, heh? I can leave, you know.”

it to

cocoon, her face a picture of distress. “How could I not want to see you? I’m

was about her recent divorce from Curtis and picked up the untouched chicken

a small table. “I’ll go wash some fruit for you

the room, Leanne sat beside the bed, feeling the warm bowl in her hands.

the soup and fed it to Mary, who reluctantly took a sip despite

supposed to be at work? Who ratted me out?” Mary guessed immediately. “Was it that

again,” Leanne said, noting Mary’s pallor, worse than when she’d feigned illness before. “Didn’t you promise

“If it weren’t for me, you

silly. It’s not your fault,” Leanne reassured

sighed heavily. “It’s all

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another bite. Setting the bowl aside, she took Leanne’s hand in

I know you never saw the Richardson family as home. The thought of you out there on your own, so alone, it just

your

reflected on her life. With its share of hardship and joy and facing her mortality,