Chapter 1637:

“Try not to hold onto what’s already gone. Locke’s doing fine now, and after you recover, we’ll have time together—just the three of us.”

He used his hand to wipe her tears away. “No more tears, alright? Your eyes are all swollen.”

He couldn’t help but worry that all this crying would only make things worse for her frail health.

“I’ll try,” Elissa said, blinking hard and forcing the tears to stop.

“Just close your eyes now,” Ernest said softly. “You need rest.”

As he started to pull away, a sudden tug stopped him.

Her fingers clung to his wrist, her eyes wide and afraid. “Are you leaving?” Her voice quivered.

shifting inside him.

but the answer

quiet sigh, trying again. “How could I leave when you’re like this? I’ll

answer him. With her eyes puffy and red,

“Great.”

at the corners of Ernest’s mouth.


he promised, “I’m not leaving. I’ll be right back with an

so much that by morning, the swelling would be impossible to ignore unless he did something

hardly ate this evening. Are you hungry? Do

slowly. “No, I’m

a world of

“Okay.” Ernest didn’t argue.

that when grief weighed so heavily, pushing her to eat

holding an ice pack, which he set gently over her

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