CHAPTER 96 - Loss

===WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS AN UNSETTLING SCENE===

LATTON was staring at Lucian as he answered the call. She witnesses how his face contorts in shock, and soon he bids her goodbye. He did not explain anything to her, he just went away. Her mood changed drastically when he left. Her face convey aggrieved. She couldn’t stop thinking who it could be.

“His parents?”

“Malena? But why would he go to her?”

"Maybe it's work?"

She sighed deeply, trying to push everything at the back of her mind, “Forget everything. It’s none of my business what he does. After 378 days, everything will be back to normal. Just a boring Latton.”

She says to herself while eating pizza, every bite is bigger than the first one.

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Meanwhile, Lucian hurriedly drove to Dignity Health Medical Center. He ran to the nurse's station, and soon he was pointed to room 904 where he saw Maisie and Charmel seated on the sofa and on the bed was Malena. Both females stared in his direction. Charmel, who knew the truth