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Chapter 1891
Chapter 1891
“Alright, stop overthinking,” Rosalynn gently shook her head. “Ivy is doing fine now, and she’s learned a hard lesson. She wouldn’t repeat the same
mistake.”
*Absolutely! She won’t make the same mistake again!” Molly chimed in immediately. “From now on, I’ll focus all my attention on Ivy and Cory, and won’t be distracted by anything irrelevant.”
The biggest issue today was that she got distracted by Rosalynn’s voice.
She glanced over there, then got carried away.
Rosalynn felt helpless.
Rosalynn wanted to tell her that she could focus on herself, but she didn’t say it out loud.
Having been through so much with Felix, Molly had formed her own unique way of thinking.
At least for now, it’s not easy to change this way of thinking.
“Okay.” Rosalynn nodded gently, “Ivy is safe now, why don’t you go rest for a bit?”
Molly glanced at the door of the ward, hesitated a bit, but finally nodded.
Rosalynn watched as Molly left.
Then she stood up, gently pushed open the door of the ward and went in.
Wayne was sitting by the bed, and he immediately turned his head.
Cory, holding his sister’s hand, had fallen asleep by the bed, and Ivy was also asleep, exhausted.
Rosalynn walked up to Wayne.
Wayne instinctively reached out to hold her hand.
She looked at Wayne, “You were scared, weren’t you?”
Wayne felt very upset, “I’m sorry.”
Rosalynn sighed helplessly, “Why do you all keep saying sorry to me?”
“I should have noticed earlier that Ivy ran out.” Wayne said in a low voice, “Why can’t I… do anything right?”
“This is something that couldn’t be prevented. Even if I were home, I wouldn’t have noticed if she had sneaked out during nap time.” Rosalynn said softly.
In fact, when she first found out that Ivy and the others had sneaked out without any security.
Her first reaction was, what was Wayne doing, how could he not notice.
But thinking about it, if she were there, she might not have noticed either.
Wayne didn’t say anything.
From the moment he found out that Ivy had sneaked out, to when he rushed to the river and saw Rosalynn, soaked wet, holding Ivy.
Wayne felt particularly uneasy.
“It’s okay.” Rosalynn patted his head, “I got lost when I was little.”
Wayne looked at Rosalynn, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
Rosalynn gently pushed away his furrowed eyebrows with her fingertips.
“My mom had just passed away not long before, and one night I really missed her and cried all night. As soon as it was dawn, I snuck out of bed, took some pocket money, and went to the bus stop by myself, to visit her grave.” Rosalynn shook her head with a smile, “You have no idea where that cemetery is, it’s really far away. Public transportation wasn’t as developed as it is now, and there were a lot of bad guys on the road.”
Wayne tightly held Rosalynn’s hand.
Rosalynn continued, “My grandparents had gone out to buy groceries early in the morning, they didn’t realize I wasn’t home. It wasn’t until they got back from buying groceries and breakfast and tried to wake me up that they realized I was gone.”
She said, glancing sideways at Wayne, “When someone found me, it was in the afternoon, he immediately called my grandpa, and then told me that the kid across the street from his house had gone missing a year ago, and his parents ended up divorcing because they blamed each other. I was scared to death, I didn’t want my grandparents to divorce.”
Wayne asked, “So, did your grandparents punish you?”
“Of course!” Rosalynn said with a bitter smile, “They both punished me. All I could think about was that they couldn’t get divorced, so I didn’t resist at all. As a result… when my grandparents discovered I was missing, they were very anxious, but they didn’t argue because of it. They were more worried about the other getting sick from too much worry.” © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.
Wayne said emotionally, “Your grandparents must have loved each other very much.”
Without hesitation, Rosalynn replied, “They loved each other very much. When my grandpa was alive, he would buy flowers for my grandma every day. No matter what happened at home, like breaking a plate or burning a pot, they never blamed each other.”