The Sway and Slide of Love by Jean Song

Chapter 159

Chapter 159 Chapter 159

'If I had known what you would go through, I would've kept you by my side, never letting you stray even a step away from me. But Noelle, as hard as those years were for you, they weren't any easier for me. "You once nearly became a mother yourself. Surely, you can understand the love a mother has for her child, can't you?"

Tears streamed down Matilda's face.

Noelle stared at her for a long moment. "Just say it. What is it that you want from me?"

Her voice was unnervingly calm. It was clear she refused to pay along with Matilda's charade.

Matilda looked up at her in disbelief. "H-How could you speak to your own mother like that?"

"Did I guess wrong?" Noelle smiled faintly. "If this isn't about anything, that's even better. I'll be on my way,

"then."

actually stand to leave, Matilda couldn't hold back any longer.

right away. Instead, she turned and looked at Matilda with mockery in her

of how difficult het request was to voice. After a brief pause,

"No."

acute kidney failure," Matilda said softly. "The doctor told me it's serious, and the only hope for a cure is a

person's mindset could completely change in just a matter of days. Even so, it would be a lie to say she wasn't

might finally receive the understanding she had longed for from her biological mother. But now, it was

It had all been a setup, a ploy to

matching

process.

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