Chapter 168

She swallowed them, forcing a weak smile.

“It’s nothing. I’ll be fine soon.”

“Mmm.”

Geoffrey didn’t know why her reassurance only deepened his worry.

Night.

Maureen still burned with low–grade fever. After bathing and taking medicine, she lay cradled in Geoffrey’s arms.

She asked softly: “Tell me something–are disabled people born less than others?”

She’d posed this question once in childhood.

Back then he’d said everyone was a little angel sent to earth by heaven. Some just got hurt falling down. We’re all equal.

Geoffrey didn’t know why she’d ask now, answering simply: “Naturally.”

“This world isn’t fair. People aren’t equal from birth.”

Maureen’s throat tightened.

“Exactly. Inequality starts from birth.”

Geoffrey noticed her mood shift, resting his large hand on her shoulder: “That’s precisely why we must rely on later efforts to create everything we desire.”

Maureen clenched his shirt.

“Okay,

I understand.”

She thought her Geoff had simply grown up, weathered too much, hence his answer differed

from before.

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to accept, Maureen pressed on:

we visit our

Childhood hideaway…

in Geoffrey’s

“What hideaway?”

man truly not be the one she’d loved

she

secret spot as a child. Maybe

peculiar today, constantly

he’d long forgotten many

if it was to avoid disappointing Maureen, but in

finally stopped

in

or to be precise, what had now

had

had gone back by then, so there

a coat and got out of

winter yet, she was

her: “Is this

it’s changed a

Maureen said.

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had no

times as a child, but never to the back hill, let

the wooden bridge, stood in the middle, looked up at the full moon, as if she had returned to

and Geoffrey had

to marry Geoff when she grew up,

fell on her serene face, and

“Geoff,

dazed, and after a while, he snapped out of it,

he reached her, he took her

was icy cold,

your hand so

warmth.

eyes crinkling: “Cold hands mean a

were once said by

pulled her directly into his embrace, placing his hand inside his

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