บททั้งหมดของ Too Late To Love Me: I Already Left With His Twins: บทที่ 261 - บทที่ 270

Dave POVBy the time I reached the apex of the stairs, I saw Anna waiting for me.She stood near the entrance to a room I hadn’t noticed properly when I arrived. She looked different from the woman I knew—or, more accurately, the woman I had heard about through Lydia and the children. The polished, effortlessly composed Anna wasn’t there tonight. Her eyes were swollen around the edges, her face drawn with exhaustion, and there was something unusually serious about the way she held herself.“Welcome,” she said quietly. “Come into the library.”I followed her.The library was enormous, lined with dark wooden shelves and warm recessed lighting. A massive mahogany desk occupied the center of the room, its polished surface reflecting the light from the chandelier overhead.Anna walked behind it and sat down.Then she gestured toward the chair opposite her.I sat.Neither of us spoke.She reached for a sheet of paper and slid it across the desk toward me.I looked at it.“What’s this?”“Che

Ava and Eli POV Omdss, I really loved the office days with Mom. There was something about being around her at work that made everything feel different. Mom was always so serious whenever she was dealing with clients or talking to people on the phone, but the second it was just us, she became… Mom again. Funny. Dramatic. A little ridiculous. Especially when it came to the car-engine discussion. She had barely known what she was talking about, yet she had somehow managed to defend herself with the confidence of someone who had personally designed three different engines. “I did my research,” she had insisted, lifting her chin. “You Googled it,” I reminded her. “That is research.” Eli had laughed so hard he nearly fell off his chair. Now we were back home, and before we knew it, it was almost time for our nanny to leave and almost time for Mom to be back. At least, that was what we thought. Our nanny was sitting across from us, telling us about an encounter she had apparently

Dave POV“Is Mom fine?”Ava’s question almost undid all the emotional stability I had managed to build.For a second, I just stared at her, completely caught off guard by how much those three words could hurt. I had been sitting there trying to hold myself together, trying to remember that I was their father and that whatever happened, I had to be the strong one. I couldn’t afford to fall apart in front of them, not when they were already scared and confused and looking to me for answers I wasn’t even sure I had.But hearing Ava ask about her mom like that made me want to pull both of my kids into my arms and give them a reassuring hug, even though I knew there was no reassurance I could honestly give them anymore.I was almost certain they already had an idea of what I was about to say.Or rather, what we were about to say.I glanced at Anna, and she seemed to understand immediately. She shifted in her seat and tried to force a smile before saying, “So, kids, I’d have loved to crack

Dave POV I stared at the phone. Then at Anna. Then at my children. Ava was already standing. Eli had lifted his head, his tear-stained face suddenly filled with something I hadn’t seen there all evening. Hope. “Dad?” Ava whispered. I smiled. “Mom is awake.” Eli’s eyes widened. “Mom?” I nodded. “She’s awake.” And before I could say anything else, the twins rushed toward each other, their arms wrapping around one another as Ava laughed through her tears. “Mom is back,” Eli whispered. And for the first time that night, those words didn’t feel like a desperate wish. They felt like the beginning of a miracle.“Auntie Anna, let’s go now,” Ava said almost immediately, her voice carrying that impatient urgency that had taken over the entire room since we got the news that their mother was awake.Eli was already standing beside her, looking just as ready to bolt out of the house. “Yeah, Auntie Anna, please. Let’s go.”Anna, however, looked at both of them and shook her head. “

Anna POVThe moment I kissed the twins on their cheeks and watched them disappear in the direction of Lydia’s ward with Dave, I turned around and started walking toward the doctor’s office, exactly in the direction the nurse had prescribed.And honestly, it was only when I started walking that I realized something.I had not actually looked at this hospital properly.Like, properly properly.Because this place was huge.Huge, huge, huge.I slowed down slightly as I looked around me, taking everything in with a little more attention than I had the last time I was here. There were corridors stretching in almost every direction, glass doors leading into different departments, nurses moving briskly from one end to another, people sitting in waiting areas, doctors walking around with files and tablets in their hands.It suddenly reminded me of Grey’s Anatomy.You know those hospitals in Grey’s Anatomy that are so ridiculously huge that you could literally walk for five minutes and still no