The More the Merrier

Chapter 1012

Arissa and the six kids sat together at one side. Depressed, the children remained quiet and gazed at the emergency room anxiously.

Arissa reached out to hold Benjamin's hand. When he sensed her tender touch, his eyes gleamed as he turned to look at her.

Arissa flashed a reassuring smile at him.

He tightened his grip on her hand in response. Although the two didn't say a word, they tacitly understood each other. Therefore, being in one another's presence was already a form of consolation.

Everyone stayed outside the emergency room's entrance. As time ticked by, Arissa grew more unsettled. Why isn't anyone coming out of the room yet?

“Issa?”

Mary thought she saw Arissa and the kids from afar. Moving closer, she realized it truly was Arissa.

“Grandaunt!”

Arissa hastily got to her feet and hurried toward Mary when she saw the latter.

The six kids jogged over as well and hugged Mary's legs.

“Great-grandaunt!”

ached terribly when she saw the children crying. She hugged

“What happened?”

the crowd outside the emergency room. She scanned her surroundings, looking for

kids' grandpa fainted,” Arissa said to

her brows in concern while asking in an

don't know yet.”

nodded and comforted her, “Old Mr. Graham is blessed

forced a smile. “Grandaunt, how did

I came over. Unexpectedly, something bad happened to Old Mr. Graham,” Mary explained to Arissa. “Wasn't he healthy

“He—”

to elaborate when

him, “Your dad will be

you should go

not necessary. I'm fine. I'll stay here to keep

couldn't leave now that she knew what had happened. She was also worried about Darius, as

she saw an old woman conversing with Benjamin and the

“Who's that old lady? Is she one of our relatives?” But why don't

Bryan glanced over. He looked away scornfully after noticing Mary's ordinary clothes. “Perhaps she's one of Benjamin's wife's poor

people are worse than other's poor relatives,” Kingsley couldn't help but retort when he accidentally heard Bryan's

of the Watts family, not to