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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accept, Maureen pressed on: “Geoff,

visit our

Childhood hideaway…

in

“What hideaway?”

this man truly not be the one she’d

she offered a bitter

Ramirez estate. My secret spot as a

peculiar today, constantly dwelling on the

the years, he’d long forgotten

to avoid disappointing Maureen, but in the end Geoffrey

finally

hung in the sky, moonlight

Maureen’s directions to the small pond, or to be precise, what

had turned into

back by then, so there weren’t many

coat and got out

she was wearing

her: “Is this the

changed a

Maureen said.

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no memory of

a few times as a child, but never to the back hill, let alone knew there was a

up at the full moon, as if she

Geoffrey had

when she grew up, and it seemed that wish

Moonlight fell on her serene face, and she seemed to blend into the surroundings, becoming a breathtaking

“Geoff, why aren’t

after a while, he snapped out of it, walking

he reached her, he took

hand was icy cold,

is your hand

warmth.

smiled, her eyes crinkling: “Cold hands mean a

once said by Geoffrey

pulled her directly into his embrace, placing his

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