Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

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."

chided him, but she didn't agree to the request

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

no counterargument,

had never respected Mila, who had once stepped in to force a relationship with Lysander. Given Lysander's obvious dislike

day have to plead with

But the child...

his teeth, stood up, and bowed deeply.

furrowed slightly, but she said

let out a

three. His memory is incomplete. I've only told him she went far away, but he's always been searching for her. He

emotional plea but Mila stopped him with a

called

"I can help, but I won't accept your apology, nor

wasn't interested

the past had faded in her memory, but her instinctive