“Little Ian, it’s getting late. I have to go now.”

“Alright,” came a flat response from Ian, who was playing a game in the room.

Sasha rose from her spot and proceeded to put on her socks, ready to leave.

“So will you be coming tonight?”

“What’s that?”

“You said you would come over every night to treat Daddy’s illness.”

Ian’s fingers did not stop tapping on the game controller while his eyes remained glued to the screen. With that listless demeanor of his, if Sasha had not been staying with the boy in the same room, she might have suspected that he wasn’t the one who said those words.

Sasha lowered her eyes. For a moment there, she thought about telling him that she would not be coming that night.

In fact, she would not be coming anymore. She didn’t want to treat his daddy’s illness again if she could help it.

But as she stood there gazing at the boy’s little head and then at the medicine left on the table, she nodded in the end.

“Yes, of course I’ll come. You should go to sleep after you put on your pajamas, understand? I will come to check on you as soon as I arrive, alright?”

The boy remained quiet.

He felt embarrassed now that his secret had been discovered.

But he nodded in the end before shifting his focus back to the game.

Sasha left the house after that, feeling relieved.

at the preschool in

you are! I thought

late. But as soon as she got there, her two little kids came running toward her. They leaped into her embrace and began to whine like the children

most

other hand, just stood in front

two precious kids in her arms. “Now, why wouldn’t I want you two? There’s nothing I

“Really?”

that. She gave Sasha a tight

merely hugged

that hug, the clever boy could sense that something was amiss about their

went there again

face immediately

before going home. She had to prepare dinner for them, clean up after that and

back to that place,

I’m going to make dinner. In the meantime, you

“Sure, Mommy.”

to the living room and took out their homework from their schoolbags. He spread out his sister’s homework, got out her

to make a phone call. Do your homework here,

you

eyes widened in anticipation. The

I realize that Mommy’s not in a good mood today, so I want to ask Ian if she’s been

Daddy! Alright, call him! If Daddy’s been bad again, then we’re kicking him

that Mommy was being bullied again, her chubby cheeks flushed red with rage as

his

could dial the number, there was already a text message waiting for him. He clicked on

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