Chapter 145

The hospital room was cloaked in silence for a long moment. No one seemed to know what to say.

Mila found herself at a loss, unsure of how to break the tension without causing offense. This family's situation was simply too bizarre.

The scene was awkwardly frozen.

After a while, she felt that saying nothing was just as rude. Just as she was about

to speak, Nathaniel hesitated but finally broke the silence.

"Could you, perhaps, help me take care of the child for a few days?"

"Why should she?"

Eugene was the first to object. "Nathaniel, how could you even ask my sister to look after your child? Do I need to remind you how you treated her in the past?"

"Eugene."

gently chided him, but she

plight, yet her history with Nathaniel was fraught with tension. While she could separate the child from the adults' issues, it

no counterargument, his

were kids and had never respected Mila, who had once stepped in to force a relationship with Lysander. Given Lysander's obvious dislike for her at the time,

one day have to

But the child...

his teeth, stood up, and bowed deeply. "The

brow furrowed slightly, but she

let out a

away, but he's always been searching for her. He mistook you for

about to scoff at Nathaniel's emotional plea

Eugene called out,

at him, then turned to Nathaniel. "I can help, but I won't accept

interested

or accidental slights, the verbal and behavioral abuse from the past had faded in her memory, but her instinctive aversion to him

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