Chapter 342

Arthur was quite brazen. He didn't even care if someone would report him for engaging in shady dealings.

Arthur was visiting, so I couldn't go in there. But I didn't want to go to Ellie's ward either, so I wandered into the hospital's little garden.

"Miss, can you play ball with me?" I hadn't been sitting on the bench for long when a little girl of about three or four years old ran over, looking at me with eager eyes.

Honestly, I didn't want to play, but faced with those eyes, I couldn't refuse. "Alright."

I thought I'd humor her for a bit and then be done with it. But as we played, I started thinking about the times when I was little and how my parents used to play ball with me.

"Madeline, you're a bit clumsy."

"Madeline, you got hit again."

"Madeline..."

I was the young girl's playmate, yet I was still being criticized. How ridiculous! But, honestly, was having a great time.

"Tiffany!"

the girl stopped in

in a tube top

back her hair that had gotten messy

done with work. We need

to play a little longer, just

Daddy won't wait for us." The woman walked

grass was so soft, and if she lost her

enough to wear them, making her way steadily to where Tiffany and I

straight to her daughter, saying, "Come on. Let's go! You're getting more and more

bit longer... just

The woman

so I tried to help coax the child. "Tiffany, go home first. Next time you come, I'll play

that we were just two strangers and that there was no chance we'd

reached out and patted her head. "We will. If it's meant to be, we'll meet

"Didn't I tell you not to play with strangers? What if she's a human trafficker? She could

She plays with me, but none of you

sassy retort.

woman grew even more furious. "How dare you talk back

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