Audrey was finally free, but she huffed in frustration, “You’re mean, Mommy! I called you earlier, but you ignored me and let me get bullied!”

Oh? Is she mad at me?

I glanced toward Shaun as I was being falsely accused.

However, the boy’s eyes widened as he said seriously, “It’s true, Mrs. Fuller. We saw you earlier, but you ignored us. You left your wallet and Audrey before leaving.”

“Were you guys seeing things?” I was really telling the truth because I had been brought away since I arrived. I never even had the chance to go anywhere else.

Still, Shaun insisted, “No, Mrs. Fuller! That person looked exactly like you.”

There was a possibility if Audrey had seen it wrong since she was quite a careless person. But if Shaun was insistent on it, it had to mean that the woman really did look like me.

Even so, it didn’t mean that it was right for them to sneak out.

“Audrey, I’m only going to say this once, okay? The woman you guys saw earlier looked like me, but it wasn’t me. I would never leave my kids behind and ignore them. Don’t you trust me?” I pretended to be angry.

somewhere they should mess around as they please. Besides, as a mother, I should not be condoning their

Audrey frowned, but her anger vanished a while later. She looked aggrieved and guilty as she

chimed in, “Your mom was with Summer and me the whole

and dropped her head. “Okay. I’m sorry, Mommy. I shouldn’t have raised my

you were wrong,” I said, my voice sterner than before. “But your mistake isn’t mistaking someone else for me. It’s that you sneaked out without telling any of us adults. Think about

took a sideways glance at the security. Then, her head seemed to have drooped lower as she said, “I’d be treated like a naughty kid and be

some bad guys and gotten kidnapped. Then, you wouldn’t be able to see your mom, or Summer, or

She didn’t dare

have their soft-hearted moments, let

heart tumbled down and melted into goo the moment I saw my

her and swept her into my arms to

as she cried loudly. Her tiny arms were wrapped around my neck as she bawled, “I was wrong, Mommy! I won’t sneak out anymore. I don’t want

eyes burned with tears, and I couldn’t get anything else out of my mouth

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