LOGINAfter thanking the officers, Louis checked the time—it was already half past nine.“Let’s head home. The temperature’s dropping; I don’t want anyone catching a cold.”Marcus stood still, muttering under his breath, “But Loraine’s favorite singer hasn’t even gone on yet…”Louis turned sharply toward
“He said he was thirsty, so I went to buy him a drink. I clearly told him not to move and when I got back, he was gone!”Loraine’s face went pale with worry. “Let’s look for him right now! I saw security guards and some police officers earlier. We can ask them for help!”The three of them forgot all
Mason, the quieter and more composed one, simply listened to the music, occasionally nodding along to the rhythm.The youngest, Manuel, was too short to see the stage at all, swallowed up by the crowd and left with nothing but the thundering music pounding in his ears.Before long, he got restless.
“Marcus, every time you sneak out, you use the same excuse,” Manuel said, crossing his arms. “Can’t you at least come up with something new?”Marcus froze. Loraine quickly jumped in with a smile. “Manuel, we really do have something serious to take care of this time. It’s boring stuff. You’d have w
“Raine, look, your fingers need to lift here, then drop cleanly. Watch my hand when I play.”In the Walker family’s grand music room, young Mason was patiently teaching Loraine how to play the piano.Sunlight streamed through the tall windows, half spilling over the glossy surface of the hundred-tho
Grace tried to lift her head, but she was too weak to manage even that small movement.A nurse quickly stepped forward and raised the head of the bed so that Grace only needed to lower her gaze to see the tiny baby in Laura’s arms.“A daughter… girls are so sweet,” Grace murmured, the words faint bu
"Adora… you really came..." Fiona murmured, instinctively trying to sit up. Adora quickly stepped forward and stopped her."Just lie down and rest."Louis, seeing the situation, turned and went to find a doctor to get more details.Fiona caught a glimpse of his tall figure walking away and was stun
Her period came a week early.As soon as Louis heard about it from the aide, he wrapped up his work and rushed over to see her.“Are you having cramps? I can warm up a compress and massage you—it might help,” he said, walking to the bedside and seeing Adora lying there with her eyes tightly shut. H
Louis stayed with her in the hospital room every night.Each time Adora woke from a nightmare, gasping for breath, he jolted upright the very same moment, as if he hadn’t slept at all and had been watching her the whole time.In the middle of the night, Adora startled awake again. As her eyes flutt
Peter got straight to the point. “Adora, Ruby’s had a miscarriage. The bleeding wouldn’t stop—they had to remove her uterus. The fetus was fully formed, but it was deformed. “Honestly, losing it might’ve been a blessing.”A miscarriage, and a hysterectomy?Adora looked up in surprise, her eyes mee







