Chapter 123

She would jump and call out his name. In the end, her hands would get tired of hanging mid-air. He would walk away after picking up her sister. He wouldn't even glance at her as he drove away from the school.

Her nanny would come to carry her instead. Murmuring words to her that he loved her. Well– she had grown up hearing those same words from her nanny. Still, nothing changed. And until she was wiser enough that he would never carry her, she kept on running to him whenever he came to pick her sister from school.

Hailey didn't know the phone was still on her ear, as those memories returned. And with them came the grief and anxieties she had held in for a long time.

"Please think about it, Sis. Things will turn back to normal if you apologize and give him what he wants," Chloe whispered from the other end.

After hanging up, Hailey tossed the phone beside her on the sofa, unable to keep it in anymore.

Things would not turn back to normal. Things were never normal. Her father would ke