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."

she didn't agree

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 didn't

counterargument, his

in to force a relationship with Lysander. Given Lysander's obvious dislike for her at the time,

he'd one day have to plead

But the child...

his teeth, stood up, and bowed deeply. "The past was my mistake.

slightly,

out a derisive

your help. Julian's mother went to prison when he was just three. His memory is incomplete. I've only told him she went far away, but he's always been searching for her. He mistook you for his mother when you saved him. Given the current situation, I beg you to care for him for a few days, until he stabilizes. I

scoff at Nathaniel's emotional

called

Nathaniel. "I can help,

wasn't interested in

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

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