Chapter 24: Your Children? [1057 WC]

Lily

Evan and Zoey were both seated in the back seat while I was in the front passenger seat. I kept looking back at Evan to see how he was doing.

His eyes were still heavily shut as he embraced himself with the jacket I let him wear.

“What happened to him?” Wade questioned.

“I don’t know either,” I began, shrugging. “I left them with Mandy because I needed to work extra hours at the restaurant and when I came back they were already asleep. But before I could sleep with them, I noticed Evan’s whimpering and had a high fever,” I explained, hugging myself as the coldness of my wet clothes began to hit me.

I didn’t notice that almost half of my shirt was wet because of the heavy rain outside while my hair was dripping wet causing me to shiver in coldness.

Wade tilt his body to grab something on the backseat while keeping his other hand on the steering wheel and his eyes on the road.

I didn’t realize what it was until he handed me a black jacket of his.

“Thanks,” I timidly replied, before