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, I can’t

we visit our childhood

Childhood hideaway…

in

“What hideaway?”

this man truly not

she offered a bitter

a small pond near the Ramirez estate. My secret spot as a

peculiar today,

years, he’d long

if it was to avoid disappointing Maureen, but

the rain finally

full moon hung in the sky,

to the small pond, or to be precise,

small pond had turned

everyone had gone back by then, so there weren’t many

wrapped herself in a coat and got out of the

winter yet, she was wearing much

her: “Is

changed

Maureen said.

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Geoffrey had no

child, but never to the

looked up at the full moon, as if

Geoffrey had

she grew up, and it seemed that wish had come

the bridge. Moonlight fell on her serene face,

at Geoffrey: “Geoff, why aren’t

after a while, he

reached her, he took her

hand was icy cold,

is your hand so

warmth.

“Cold hands mean

words were once said by

directly into

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