Chapter 14
When Gemma and Amelia entered the house, Sadie was in the living room playing with Florian. She seemed suprised to see them enter together.
“Amy, Gemma, how did the two of you come back together
Amelia glanced at Gemma and replied, “We ran into each other at the door.
Sadie keenly noticed something was off with Amelia. Then, she tomed to Gemma. “Gemma, you should go upstairs and get some rest.”
Just as Gemma was about to head upstairs, Florians can up and looked at her. “Gemma, cand i
I pompstairs and play with you?”
Before Gemma could respond, Sadie quickly pulled him jo her side. “Gemma is tited and needs some rest. “
Florian pouted. “But it’s not even it o’clock yet.”
“She’s tired. She’ll play with you some other day. Then, Sadie fomed to instruct Sara, “Take Florian back to his room.”
“Got it, Mrs Field‘
Gemma watched Sadie’s nervous reaction the entire time. Though her expression remained unchanged, the foural it utterly ridiculous. The way Sadie cracted seemed as it Gemma might lay her hands on Florian
She said nothing and tumed to head upstairs.
The sisters spoke only after confirming she’d gone into her mom.
“What’s going on?” Sadie asked.
“Sadie, do you know who sent her back?
“Who?”
“The youngest son of the Grays, Jacob.”
Sadie fell silent at Amelia’s words, while the latter continued, “Jacob is very enthusiastic about her, if I’m not wrong, he seems to have fallen forher”
Sadie clenched her fists tightly as her gaze turned dark and cold. “she’s only been back for a few days, and she’s already hooked up with a man. She really is just like
her mother.”
“What worries me if she gets together with Jacob, everything that happened in the past…”
Amelia didn’t finish her sentence, but Sadie understood. The latter gritted her teeth and replied, “Impossible. I’ll never let that happen.”
“What should we do next?”
“Don’t worry. I have plans. There’s no way she’s staying in Northington, and she can forget about using Jacob to make a comeback.”
That night, Gemma stood by the window and recalled Sadie’s reaction in the living room. Memories from the past flooded her mind.
She stood there, enjoying the cold night breeze. It wasn’t until midnight that she finally lay down to rest. It was a poor sleep with a night full of dreams.
In her dreams, hermother, Melanie Poppin, wept and asked, “Why doesn’t your father love me anymore? Why did he cheat on me?
The scene shifted Gemma stood on the top of the stairs while Sadle lay on the ground as blond pooled beneath her.
Everyone accused her of that putlidess act. She was slandered to have pushed Sadie down the stairs because she couldn’t tolerate the child in Sadie’s womb.
Thomas, who used to cherish her, looked at her with cold eyes and asked, “How could you do this?
In the dirain, die grond alone under the cold condemning gazes, which threatened to cut her apart.
she explained and denied, yet not a single person listened
Gemena twisted in pain on the bed and shook her head. Then, a voice called out to her, “Gem.”
slar struggled to open her eyes, and the fist thing she saw was ‘Tracy’s worked face.
Seeing her wake up. Tiary imunudiately grabbed las hand “r, you’re fically awake!”
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Gemma kept walking. In the grand Field residence, not a single person was bothered by why she hadn’t come downstairs all moming, and no one cared whether something had happened to her.
How ridiculous. This was supposed to be her home, but everyone would rather she return to Vesterland and never come back
But this time, she wouldn’t leave so easily.
the hospital, the doctor went through a settes at examinations and confirmed Gemma was just suffering from a common cold and fever. He prescribed some ebication anbendered an IV dip
