The air in the car turned silent. Luna’s whole body stiffened.

She had not seen both Neil and Nellie for days. This was the longest time she had spent apart from them since she gave birth to them six years ago.

She missed them dearly.

From the calls they shared this morning and yesterday in the afternoon, she knew the children missed her dearly too.

The fire in her heart that was burning with excitement at the thought of meeting her children was cruelly extinguished by Alice’s cold words, instead turning cold and frosty.

Alice was doing this on purpose. She did not have any feelings for Neil and Nellie. She was just trying to get to her, to get to the children.

“Joshua?“ Noticing Joshua’s continued silence, Alice even called out to him softly.

Only then did he blink and recover his wits. He coughed slightly, raised his eyes and looked at Luna from the back as she sat in the passenger seat. “We’ll do as Alice says.“

the children throughout the six years of their lives, after all, blood was thicker than water. Besides, Alice and the children

bit her lip, holding on to the delusional idea that she might be able

night… can I have an afternoon

to hold them and hug them tightly in her arms. Cook them a sumptuous lunch and just spend

rob her of such

she even used a term of

stay in Luna’s apartment at the Swan

photos that Lily sent him. They were his precious treasure. He even cherished the photos of him two little children

this way. Alice and I are their birth parents, while Luna is their foster mother, all of us love the children. We have been apart for too long, neither can bear to be apart from them any longer. Why not Luna go and bring them down later,

man’s words made both

“No.“

don’t think that’s a good

simultaneously. Deadly silence once again enveloped

just do as Joshua says. We are a family after

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