The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Chapter 178

Zane picked up a folder on his desk.

In his own opinion, his feelings for Annalise had reached far deeper than he himself had imagined.

...

Willow seemed to especially like the new friend she'd made.

Most of the other children had already gone home. However, she was still reluctant to walk out of the school gates, her small hand holding tightly onto another girl's even as she stared fixedly at her. I was also happy that she had made a new friend, so naturally, I didn't press her.

"Ms. Annalise, Cody was bullying Willow in school again."

At the sound of the familiar voice, I lowered my head to look.

Zachary's hands clutched tightly at the hem of his shirt as he looked up at me, continuing, "But I stood up to him for Willow, so he didn't succeed."

As if I was just speaking to another one of Willow's classmates, I replied calmly and politely, "Thank you."

frozen on the spot for quite a while

started backing

"Goodbye," I echoed.

...

him, he burst into tears. His tears flowed uncontrollably, and he hurriedly wiped them

his wish and spoken to Annalise, so why was he still so

called her "Ms. Annalise", it was as if the mother-son relationship between them was abruptly severed? Or was it because the way she spoke to him sounded like how she would speak to an unfamiliar child? Harry watched him crying miserably and made an attempt to console him by asking, "Since calling her such

"She won't pay any attention to me at all when

feeling sympathy for the child in front of

window, staring unblinkingly at Annalise as he murmured, "Mommy... I miss

upon which Willow

hated me and that he would still bully

picked her up in

shoulders, adding, "But I'd rather be bullied by Cody than

the initiative to

replied Willow before she suddenly started to cry.

the