Chapter 598:

“Besides, you handled it well. Joy is fine now, right?”

“Fine?” Melba pointed to Joy, who appeared distressed. “No, she’s frightened.”

Seeing the tears welling in Melba’s eyes, Hadley realized just how rattled she truly was.

“Melba, why don’t you take a breather? I’ll look after Joy. I can help her settle down.”

“Okay.” Melba nodded. “Joy feels closest to you. Just being near you will help her forget the scare.”

“You’re right,” Hadley said, offering a gentle smile.

That night, as Hadley bathed Joy in the soothing warmth of the bathroom, she placed Joy’s favorite rubber duck in the tub. But Joy didn’t giggle as she usually did.

Hadley sensed that something was seriously amiss.

“My dear Joy, is something bothering you today?”

her big eyes

a twinge of anxiety. “What’s troubling you, Joy? Can’t you share it

question might disturb her mother, which was why she had kept it bottled up. But now, under her mother’s gentle gaze, she felt the weight of her thoughts pressing

a mom and a dad, right? With both a mom and a dad, that’s how

as the question hung in the air like a delicate

Joy’s worries would revolve

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took her first breath, Hadley had known

from

harbored resentment toward her

had skirted the issue,

what was destined to

shimmered with unshed tears as she tugged at her mother’s sleeve. “Do I

painfully, and she managed to nod. “Yes, of

where is Dad? Why hasn’t he ever come to

if it

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