This chapter contains flashbacks (this will explain the details of what happened at the end of chapter 180).
...“We still have five minutes before the lunch break ends. Are you willing to give me the rest of the time? There are some things I want to ask you," not wanting to beat around the bush, Tammy immediately questioned Noah."What do you want to ask me?" Slightly furrowing his brows, Noah asked in confusion while looking at the short-haired woman sitting across from him.Tammy was sitting across from him, and she was also the one who started the conversation between them. Previously before she decided to come to the man's table, she could see how the man was talking to someone on his phone, but his expression was not clear in her eyes. The man looked serious, but at the same time, he also looked confused. That was the reason why she decided to approach him.When she finally got the chance to voice what was on herThis chapter contains flashbacks....Noah looked stunned at Tammy's question, and he didn't answer it immediately.As Tammy continued to look at him while waiting for his answer, she could see how his eyes were shaking slightly as if he was afraid of something. The subtle reaction confused her even more, and she wanted to hear an answer as quickly as possible.However, what she saw in the next second was how Noah once again looked at her before replying, “When I just met him once again after being separated for so many years, I still loved him, that's why I didn't hesitate to get back together with him."Tammy already heard an answer, and she silently underlined some parts of his answer. She then asked, “Just now you said you still loved him when you just met him again after being separated for so many years, right? Does that mean… you slowly lost your feelings for him after that day?”“…” Noah once again loo
"Are you telling the truth?""Of course!" Tammy immediately answered her friend's question. “I have no reason to lie to you about something like that, and he told me all that before you gave birth to the twins five years ago. We talked in the company cafeteria. I was the one who decided to approach him at that time after he finished talking on the phone with someone, and I also didn't expect him to tell me everything.”Tammy shrugged her shoulders indifferently, but Jessica ignored her nonchalant attitude because she was distracted by many things on her mind. But perhaps the biggest thing that bothered her was how Tammy had just told her that her husband actually loved her five years ago.Blankly, she leaned her back against the back of the sofa as she suddenly looked exhausted. Actually, her body was exhausted because she had just returned to New York from China. She had no time to rest, and now she was even more mentally exhausted because of the informat
When Jessica visited the hospital again the next morning, she still couldn't control her feelings. First, it was because of Tammy's story yesterday about how Noah actually had feelings for her years ago, and then she felt more complicated after hearing what her son and daughter said to her.She couldn't even deny that she felt unhappy after leaving the country where she was born and raised. At that time, she left everything behind and took nothing with her but her babies. She indeed felt empty when living in another country even if she never told anyone about her true feelings.She just didn't expect her children to notice that. 'My children are indeed more mature than children their age,' she thought to herself before arriving at the hospital reception desk.She told the woman at the desk that she was going to visit her mother, but this time, the woman standing behind the desk questioned her, “Actually, there is no record in our system of the patient havi
“Excuse me. Can you tell me who the handsome man is?” Jessica asked the question in a low voice, but it was enough to attract the attention of the two nurses who were previously gossiping not far from where she was standing.She needed to take a few steps to get close to them, and now she was standing next to them. The two nurses turned towards her, and they silently studied her appearance from head to toe."Who are you?" The nurse with long platinum hair asked that question.Jessica expected she would accept the question, but she seemed unsure as she glanced at her mother who still had her back to her, but then she focused her attention on the nurse again as she answered, “I'm that woman's daughter.”One of the nurses furrowed her brows after hearing her answer. "I'm the nurse who was assigned to take care of her when she's in the hospital, and I'm sure there is no daughter in the data recorded by the hospital," the curly-haired nurse answered Je
Jessica completely prostrated herself in front of her mother's wheelchair, and the ground beneath her face was wet with her tears. For the past five years, she had tried to hide her tears so her children wouldn't notice her sadness, but she couldn't do it anymore when faced with her mother.She didn't even dare to look at her mother's reaction, and she could only wait for the woman to step on her head to punish her for her sins.However, instead of feeling pain in her head, she felt even greater pain in her heart when her mother said, “Do you think your Dad will come back to life if I step on your head?”Jessica's heart exploded in pain, and she almost screamed as she once again remembered how her father died five years ago because of her. In the past five years, she had been haunted by her father in her nightmares. In each nightmare, her father first smiled at her, but then his expression became darker before a single tear fell from his eye. It was always
“So, have the twins grown well in the past five years?”"They have. Shane and Shania are now five years old, and they are very healthy and intelligent. They will probably start school next year.”Jessica still felt like it was a dream. Initially, she only planned to see her mother from afar, but then her mother noticed her presence. She thought her mother would try to throw her out like she did five years ago, but she was wrong because her mother had opened her arms to her.It was probably not exaggerating to say that a mother's heart was bigger than a mountain, and that was proven by how her mother was able to forgive her even though she made a big mistake five years ago.Right now, she could even stand next to her mother's wheelchair as her mother struck up a conversation with her, and it still felt unreal to her.Jessica could see how her mother nodded after hearing her answer, and it didn't seem like the older woman was going to ask h
“So… they are my grandchildren, Jess?” Jessica still couldn't believe her ears after hearing her mother's question. Five years ago, her mother no longer wanted to see her and her children, which was why she went to China with her two babies so that she wouldn't accidentally show her face in front of someone who refused to see it. In the past five years, she even hesitated to tell stories about her mother to her children and was even afraid to tell them that they still had a grandmother who lived in a different part of the globe. Only when they returned to New York did she have more courage to tell the twins about their grandmother. She told her children that they still had a grandmother, but their grandmother was not feeling well and needed to be hospitalized. One time, the twins said they wanted to visit their grandmother in the hospital, but Jessica didn't dare to grant that wish. She didn't expect a day would come when her mother said
But, that was definitely just an impossible wish because time continued to move even if she begged it to stay. Proof that time continued ticking was how the scene changed when her mother said that she would frame the drawing once she was able to leave the hospital, and the children seemed happy after hearing that.Her mother then asked the children to make more drawings for her, and they vigorously nodded their heads before going to the sofa inside the ward and taking out drawing equipment from their bags. They then sat on the floor before happily drawing on the paper they brought from Tammy's house."They are growing into smart and well-mannered children," said Patricia, looking at her grandchildren proudly.“They grew up in an eastern country, and the people there really respect their elders. Both Shania and Shane learned a lot from their environment," answered Jessica.“That's good,” answered Patricia. “Children like them usually only like to p