Chapter 76

The moment Charlotte entered the house, Fifi flew into her arms and knocked the wind out of her. “Mommy, Mommy!”

“Miss, you’re finally back!” Mrs. Berry flung down her mop and ran over to her. She grabbed Charlotte’s arm and said with tears in her eyes, “Oh, my poor dear, let me see where they injured you!”

“It was just a few injuries, nothing serious... Ouch!”

Charlotte had made to hug Mrs. Berry, but a dizzying pain in her shoulder prevented her from doing so. She looked down and winced.

“Mommy, hang in there!”

Fifi flew to land on Charlotte’s hair, nudging the woman’s head with her green one to comfort her.

“Fifi, my darling!” Charlotte reached up and patted the parrot gently on the head.

“Have a seat, come on!” Mrs. Berry steered Charlotte towards the sofa and made her sit down. “Poor girl. It’s been so many days! Why haven’t your wounds healed completely?”

“It’s fine. They’re starting to heal.” Beads of sweat appeared on Charlotte’s forehead. “Mrs. Berry, these are the medicine and vitamin supplements that the doctor gave me. Could you help me put them away? I’ll go and change my clothes in my room.”

“Are you sure you can manage by yourself? I can help you change.” The housekeeper looked uncertain.

“No, it’s alright! The school bus should be reaching soon. Why don’t you go and pick up the kids?”

is getting worse by the day. I’ll go once I put away these bags

back to her room before she went and put everything away. Afterward, she headed downstairs with Fifi to pick up

take a sip of

my darlings!” she cried. The three meatballs ran into her arms, knocking into her wound in the process.

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“It’s alright, it’s alright.”

shot a look at Mrs. Berry, warning her not to bring up

sweating so much?

her oldest, had excellent observation skills. He frowned when he realized

Mommy is fine...” Charlotte reassured him as

“Mommy, are you sick?”

glass of water. He ran towards her, causing some of the water to splash out of the glass. He quickly caught the droplets with his hand, afraid that they might splash onto Charlotte.

felt extremely touched by her sons’ kind

Her youngest stood on her tiptoes and wiped Charlotte’s sweat away with her sleeves,

Have all of you been

three of

life got for her, she was always reminded once again that life

Mommy will be resting now. Go and play with Mrs. Berry for a

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