The Unfaithful Mr. Scott novel (Eugene and Melanie)

Chapter 251

Sally stood aside, giving Melanie space to get to her grandfather.

However, Melanie felt her steps were heavy, as though rocks were tied to her legs. She looked at her grandfather on the hospital bed.

Her grandfather had accompanied her through her childhood, stepping on puddles in the rain and flying kites during sunny days.

He even read her bedtime stories and made her paper planes.

When Albert was young, he was handsome and charming. His outstanding genes could be seen in Dylan and Melanie.

Melanie stood by the bed. Her hands were trembling as she stared at the old man before her. The stroke had distorted half of his face, and even his mouth was slanted in a weird angle.

However, her grandfather still moved his lips as though he had many things to say to Melanie.

Melanie found it difficult to understand what he was talking about with the oxygen mask covering his mouth and his distorted facial features.

Anxious, Albert stared straight into Melanie’s eyes with his cloudy eyes. A tear rolled down the wrinkles at the corner of his eyes.

were red as she held back her tears, afraid of

tears with a piece of tissue as she tried to make herself sound calm. “Grandpa, you’re already in your 70s. Why are

his finger but said nothing. All he did was hint Melanie to

what Albert meant and placed her palm under his finger.

difficult for him. When he finished the whole sentence, his hand fell on the

looked for a

had written on her hand, asking her to return to the nursing

did not know why. Her head felt heavy as she

the nursing home, she opened the drawer her grandfather mentioned and took out a small box. The emotions Melanie suppressed along

ground, leaning against the closet with the box in her arms. She buried her head between her knees and

Albert left for her contained two bank cards with notes stuck on

was Albert’s writing. One was labeled as ‘Melanie’s wedding gift,‘ and the other was labeled

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it was a row of new writing. Maybe Albert added this sentence recently. On the note was ‘Don’t give this to your mother because I’ve

she cried silently in

the bank cards and could imagine the scene of her grandfather writing

grandfather’s room until it was dark before leaving. She knew why Albert wanted her to take the bank cards. He was afraid he wouldn’t