Chapter 146

Tiffany waved a hand. "I don't want it. Thanks."

She felt like vomiting again before even finishing the sentence. All she could think of was how the boy had thrown the wriggling caterpillar into his mouth.

She shut her eyes and asked, "Whose kid was that?"

"Carrie Simpson, one of our maids." William paused. "Why do you ask?"

Tiffany suppressed the urge to heave. "He looks like he's only seven or eight. Why was he..."

"Carrie took too much medication when she was pregnant, so it affected the baby's growth. He's been like this since birth-he's not too intelligent and is even a little... retarded," William said. When he noticed how pale she looked, he held her steady. "Are you okay, Tiff? Why did you become paler?"

She shook her head and continued asking, "Didn't Carrie do any tests back then? Didn't she do an anomaly scan to see whether everything was okay?"

"According to her, the tests didn't show anything. Sometimes, these tests and scans aren't 100% accurate. There've been many cases of misdiagnoses."

know how to

knew how it would

window. Even from a distance, she could see the little boy digging around

water." William appeared

accepted

send the boy to an orphanage, but the situation there was too horrible. All the children there were disabled or

ultimately couldn't bring

worked for us for years my mother pitied her and

continued, "He usually plays by himself in the garden. We're all used

She couldn't help softening

me?" He looked at her. "Am I not

his gaze. "We can't go back to how we used

made a huge mistake, Tiff. And it's precisely because of that that I know how

chance, please?"

in the early days

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