After Nina sighed in her heart, she opened the bedroom door and walked out.

She checked in on the children one by one. They were all fast asleep, not awakened by their moving about.

Nina confirmed that they had not rolled out of bed, then closed the door and shook her head.

'How could Luca have woken the children up when she was so careful all throughout?'

She returned to Luca's bedroom, closed the door, and said, "Don't worry, Lanie and the others are sound asleep. They didn't roll off the bed."

Luca opened her eyes and looked at Nina. A slight smile appeared on her face. She knew that Nina was going to stay here tonight and did not want to turn her kind gesture down. She said, "I have a new blanket in my closet. If you want to sleep here, you can share the bed with me as long as you're okay with the smell of blood on me."

"I don't mind it, but I'm not going to sleep here tonight. I'm afraid that I'll accidentally hurt you when I'm asleep. I'll sleep on the sofa. The sofa in your bedroom is the right size," Nina said. She opened Luca's closet and took out the blanket.

Luca did not say anything. She knew that Nina wanted to stay only because she was worried about her.

"Thank you, Nina," she said.

"At times like these, you don't have to be polite with me. Rest early. You look very weak. You've lost so much blood. I'm sure you're not feeling the best," Nina stepped forward and touched Luca's forehead. She was relieved to find that Luca did not have a fever.

"Mm, good night." Luca closed her eyes again. Nina was right. She had lost too much blood and was not doing well.

Nina watched her close her eyes and left a small night light on so that she could check in on her in the middle of the night.

The next day.

her eyes,

sun rose later in winter. She glanced out the window and knew

got up in a hurry and accidentally tugged on the wound. She could not help but frown. She was only thinking about preparing breakfast for the kids and forgot that

the bedroom. Nina was not

out of bed and lifted her nightdress in front of the full-length mirror. Looking at the gauze, she did not

the dresser, opened the drawer, took out the

carefully undid the gauze and glanced at the sutured wound. It was covered with scabs and looked like

up a towel and soaked it in some hot water. She wrung it dry and wiped off the blood around the wound before slowly wiping the

her days on the Island of Despair. Even though it slowed down her movements, she

that the smell of blood on her body was fainter. She

she deliberately wrapped an extra layer of gauze around the wound before

up a little and slowly

Luca in the middle of the stairs and exclaimed, "Why did you get out of

much better now. I'll be okay," Luca said. She knew that Nina had been busy since early in the morning

and made sure the maid was not in the living room before she whispered, "What if the wound

head and explained while holding onto the handrail of the stairs. "I took a look at the wound just now. It didn't open and has started to scab. Don't

other than that, she looked like a normal person in office attire. She asked,

need to attend to. I have no choice..." Luca said helplessly. She

unwilling to do that

and said,

dining room, and walked up the stairs again. She reached out

pursed her lips and smiled

herself to stop the bleeding. Nina was very frightened. She did not get a good sleep last night and woke up several times to check on Luca. She was afraid that something

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