Chapter 597:

Joy hesitated briefly, and then continued softly, “Then… do moms and dads always belong together?”

“They do,” Eric said gently, feeling touched by the innocence of her question.

“That’s how it usually works—a mom and a dad form a family. Then, there goes their baby.”

But why was she asking this all of a sudden?

When Eric first met Joy in Blathe, he had always found it peculiar how the little girl frequently spoke of her mother but never mentioned her father. Today, she posed a question that sparked his curiosity.

“Joy…”

Eric was on the verge of asking more, but then—

“Joy!”

sudden shout cut through the

It was Melba!

would have thought that

her sprint, scooped Joy into her arms and shot Eric

approaching a little girl

she turned and

If anything had happened to you, losing my

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the light

hand to gently dab at Melba’s tears,

skepticism etched across her

mouth but

have mixed him up with someone else,” Melba concluded. “You’re just a little kid; what do you know? Never mind, I’ll keep an even

there, feeling utterly

really been mistaken for a

with her words? Were her parents at odds? Had her

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