Chapter 41

After Lucian went on a business trip, Allison returned to her old life, bouncing between the hospital and school daily.

Grace was suffering from severe kidney failure. Even though the Flanagan family was footing the medical bills, the only cure was a kidney transplant, but they couldn’t find a suitable donor.

As Grace’s condition worsened, her dialysis frequency increased from once every two weeks to once a week.

At this point, a light rain began to fall.

Allison stood before Joshua’s tombstone, carefully cleaning the weeds around it. She bent down and placed some fresh flowers in front of it.

She gently stroked the picture of the middle–aged man on the stone, her eyes brimming with tears.

A lot had happened recently, and she was feeling the pressure. Still, she couldn’t save her mother. Speaking softly, she asked, “Dad, what would you and Ricky do if you were still here?*

Allison still remembers the day her father died. He was supposed to be handling some business for the Flanagan family. Initially, it was supposed to be Christopher, but for some reason, it was her father and her brother, Ricky.

Facing the crushing weight of a heavy truck, he

death, the Flanagan patriarch was deeply affected and

felt guilty about the whole thing, but

breakdown because of all this and was insane for a while. Back then, Leah arranged for Grace and Allison to move into a small house behind the Flanagan mansion. It

of income was cut off. Grace

it. She said that it was blood money, earned with her husband’s and son’s lives, and

would overhear some of the Flanagan servants gossiping in the kitchen:

strange, they say…”

day. He should’ve been the

and son when she was young. Now she has a daughter to take

the little girl is

be afraid of? She’s too young to understand.”

Allison

those gossipy servants were fired.

for the deaths of her father and brother. For saying that, she

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