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?”

big

of anxiety. “What’s troubling you, Joy? Can’t you

shook her head. Though young, she sensed that her question might disturb her mother, which was why she had kept it bottled up. But

child has both a mom and a dad, right? With both

question hung in

imagined that Joy’s worries would revolve around

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the moment Joy took her first breath, Hadley had known this day would

wasn’t conceived from

father harbored resentment toward her

years, Hadley had skirted the issue, never once

what was destined to happen

she tugged at her mother’s

painfully, and she managed

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

if it might crumble. “No,

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