Chapter 527

Dahlia looked at Sandy, her tone icy and distant.

"Do you want to?" she asked.

Sandy nodded vigorously.

She couldn't stand living in this cramped, run-down apartment, and she didn't dare imagine what life would be like without her dad-her mom probably wouldn't even bother to smile at her anymore.

"Mom, can you teach me? What should I do so Daddy will come back to us?" Sandy knelt at Dahlia's feet, looking up at her with wide, hopeful eyes.

"What do you think?" Dahlia shot back, her voice sharp.

Sandy hesitated, understanding what her mother meant.

But...

"Mom, Dr. Carter said I can't get sick..." Sandy's voice trembled with fear.

She remembered overhearing Dr. Carter warning her parents: she couldn't afford

to get sick now, any infection could be dangerous-no one, not even the best doctors, could save her then.

She didn't want to die.

*Slap-*

Dahlia's hand flew up, striking Sandy's face.

"If dying was that easy, would you still be alive now?"

"Sandy, you need to understand without Charles, you're nothing."

"You've already been expelled from St. Catherine's Academy. From now on, you'll have to live in this shabby apartment and call Wesley, that useless man, your father."

you had before is

shook her head

wasn't what

get expelled from St.

her dad. Only Charles was worthy

do it. Whatever it takes to make Daddy come

her fear

to being adored, to living a life where everyone looked up to her.

there to be afraid of? Mom was right-how could she die so easily? She'd survived

she was five, Mom had made her soak in ice water before. She'd ended up in the hospital-sure,

weak, and Mom deliberately made her sick. When she woke up, the look of worry on Daddy's

Daddy loved her.

sick again, really bad, Daddy would be heartbroken. And

go back to the

happier days. Each time she recalled Charles doting on her, her resolve grew

her clothes and walked into the bathroom

own.

turned on the cold

no bathtub, just a narrow shower. Gritting her teeth,

but she was still only seven. The freezing water hit her skin and she shrieked darting away

herself into

daughter, Dahlia's face hardened. She

in the shower," Dahlia

Sandy edged

I can't stand it," Sandy whimpered, hugging herself

and her face turn

Dahlia pretended not to

no more chances to make

or a small fever wouldn't move Charles. Only

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