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.“

though she had not lived with the children throughout the six years of their lives, after all, blood was thicker than water. Besides, Alice and the children were never close. This was one of the rare times she initiated a reunion with the children, there

nails cutting deep crescents into her palms. She bit her lip,

can I have

hug them tightly in her arms. Cook them a sumptuous lunch and just spend an afternoon with

determined to rob her of such an

a term of endearment like ‘babies’ to describe Neil and Neillie. “Joshua,

to stay in Luna’s apartment at the Swan Lake Residences to take care of the two children’s daily life and at the same time… to

his precious treasure. He

do it 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

man’s words made both Alice and Luna

“No.“

that’s a

simultaneously. Deadly silence once again enveloped the

just do as Joshua says. We are a family after all, we shouldn’t argue over a minor disagreement like this, don’t

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