Not A Small-Town Girl

Chapter 16-3

Back in the main hall, Nathan boldly let David know his opinion. "Mr. Charrington, Miss Darling doesn’t seem so receptive to you."

"Don’t make me send you off on a business research trip to the middle of nowhere," David replied. He didn’t wear any emotion on his face, but in his mind, an idea had formed.

When Danielle returned home, Vivian and Howard buzzed around her excitedly and led her to the living room to sit.

"Danielle, we were planning to throw a homecoming party for you next month, but your grandparents aren’t in the best health right now, so we might have to postpone it," Vivian said in a soft voice with guilt written on her face.

"What’s wrong with them?" Danielle asked worriedly. This was the first time she’d heard them mention that Alice and Caleb were sick.

few years back, and have since become bedridden and unresponsive. They’ve been reliant on medication all this while, but recently

who can cure all sorts of illnesses as long as the patient is alive. We’ve been trying to locate this person all these

maybe it’s nothing but an urban legend and there’s

them tomorrow?" Danielle immediately asked. She had to see them in person

to the hospital tomorrow." Vivian and Howard

Danielle was not the best at consoling others, but she knew that healing her grandparents would be

Danielle," Howard and Vivian said one after the other as they watched their precious daughter go upstairs to her room. They were truly grateful that their daughter had matured into such

opened the Darling family group chat. Vivian was the one who dropped the bombshell with

a text as well. [She’s the most beautiful, caring and understanding daughter a father

by their sons the last time they had sent them messages, so they had wanted to hold off on breaking the news to them. Besides Joseph, the