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

of distress. “How could I not want to see you? I’m just ashamed.”

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

go wash some

Leanne sat beside the bed, feeling

spooned the soup and fed it to Mary, who reluctantly took a sip despite her lack of

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 to tell me if something

so ashamed,” Mary repeated, her head bowed low. “If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t have gone through all this.”

silly. It’s not your fault,” Leanne

heavily. “It’s all on

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soon, Mary couldn’t manage another bite. Setting the bowl aside, she took Leanne’s hand

went off to college, you never really came back home. I know you never saw the Richardson family as

your

share of hardship and joy and facing her mortality, there was just one thing she couldn’t let