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

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

Curtis and picked up the untouched chicken soup. “It’s

hastily rearranged a small table. “I’ll go wash some

left the room, Leanne sat beside the bed,

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

to be at work? Who ratted me out?” Mary guessed

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

head bowed low. “If it weren’t for me,

be silly. It’s not your fault,”

sighed heavily. “It’s all on me.”

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her, but soon, Mary couldn’t manage another bite. Setting the bowl aside, she took Leanne’s hand in her wrinkled grasp and

think about was you. After you went off to college, you never really came back home. I know you never saw the Richardson family as home. The thought of you out there on your own, so alone, it just ate at me.”

your

joy and facing her mortality, there