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Chapter 13
“Lilia has just woken up!”
“Okay, Mommy’s going to check on her first, alright?”
Joanna changed her clothes, washed her face and hands, disinfected herself, and then finally went to
her daughter’s room.
“Lilia, Mommy’s home!”
“Mommy!”
Lilia Haynes was lying in bed, a big, bright smile on her skinny little face.
The little girl had been hurt by a congenital heart defect and hemolytic anemia ever since she was
born. The hemamebas in her body were poorly hematopoietic. So she would need to be transplanted
with new hematopoietic stem cells after some time.
For more than three years, poor Lilia had been lying in bed, unable even to stand up once. Her skin
was covered with needle marks and scars.
The hospital bills and the cost of follow-up treatments were a heavy burden, and they also pushed
Joanna to go forward.
Joanna’s biggest wish was that her daughter could recover one day, and she could see Lilia standing
up.
“Lilia, does it still hurt?” Joanna was holding her daughter’s thin hand, and her heart was twitching with
pain.
Whenever Joanna saw her daughter, she would have to try so hard to prevent the tears from welling up
in her eyes.
Lilia shook her head slightly. “Not anymore.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtJoanna was chewing her upper lips to fight the great sadness inside. Her daughter had just had a
major operation. The kid must pretend to be fine.
“Mommy, can I have some chocolates?” Lilia begged weakly.
The little girl’s mouth was filled with bitterness that was brought by the medicine during the operation.
And she would like to eat something sweet.
“Oh, Lilia, you know you just had your pills. How about this? When you get better, Mommy will buy you
a whole pack of chocolate!”
Lilia’s eyes glittered with expectation when hearing this. She nodded obediently. “But is it okay if I have
a look at the chocolate, then? I won’t eat it.”
“Yes, of course, you can.”
Joanna put a piece of chocolate in her little girl’s hand.
“I won’t eat it, Mommy, not until I’m better.”
It broke Joanna’s heart to hear this. Tears finally overcame her and rolled down her cheeks.
She knew that her daughter was not lying to her because the little girl was simply too sick to eat
anything on her own.
“Yeah, isn’t my Lilia the sweetest!” said Joanna in tears and hurried to stand up. “Miranda, please, take
good care of Lilia!” With that, Joanna could not bear to stay with her daughter any longer. She was at
the edge of a breakdown.
Miranda, one of the nannies, looked at Joanna sadly. “I’ll take care of Lilia! But you need to take care of
yourself, too, Joann.”
“I will. Thank you.”
Joanna got out of the daughter’s room, stood at the door, and took a deep breath! Then she caught
sight of her two sons sneaking around the laptop..
“What are you doing?”
“Huh? Nothing!”
Davian and Irvin turned off the laptop at once when hearing their mother’s voice.
Her sons loved the internet and had spent too much of their time on it. However, Joanna had always
been too occupied by her work to watch over these two.
“Don’t stare at the screen for too long. It’s bad for your eyes.”
“Yes, Mummy!”
“Alright, you smart pants, go wash your hands and get ready for dinner!”
“Right away!” The boys slipped down the chairs and snickered as they ran to the bathroom.
“Oh, my, it’s such a nice surprise for that bad guy. I couldn’t help imagining his face tomorrow when he
sees it”
“Shh, keep your voice down. We don’t want Mommy to know any of this.”
“You’re right. Humph, that bad guy. How dare he bully Mommy? We’ll show him what we got…”
After dinner, Joanna put the kids back in their beds and read them bedtime stories until they were
asleep. Then, at last, she could go back to her work.
She closed her laptop at three o’clock in the morning, and finally, she was ready to have some sleep.
Chapter 13
Joanna had only slept four hours a day for years! And this kind of lifestyle had made it impossible for
her to think of anything else.
Morning came soon.
Buzz, buzz, buzz…
Before Joanna could get up, Jaydon blew up her phone.
“Jay? What are you calling me for at this hour?”
On the other end of the line, Jaydon’s worried voice replied, “Joann, have you seen the news?”
“What news?” Joanna rubbed her eyes, confused.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Check on your cell phone and read the entertainment news.”
Joanna’s heart skipped a beat when she heard this. She had a very bad feeling about this.
She remembered how badly she had been roasted six years ago. Back then, she was still that innocent
girl and even thought about jumping off the roof to end her life! Joanna prayed that it wouldn’t happen
to her ever again.
Joanna shivered and unlocked her phone.
In an instant, more than five notifications popped up, and they were all about her.
“After hooking up with her brother-in-law and getting kicked out, Joanna Haynes has moved on to her
next victim.”
“The former lady of Greyport fell out with her family for inheritance! Her father was kicked out of the
board, and she seized the family business.”
“Joanna Haynes unwed yet pregnant. The father unknown…”
Over the night, news about Joanna was all over the internet.
Joanna clicked one of them open with a trembling finger. And as she feared, the comments below were
unbearable.
It was like what had happened six years ago took place once again! The only difference was that this
time, it appeared to be even more fierce.
“Hello? Joann? Are you still there?”
Joanna stared blankly at the comments, feeling happiness and joy sucked out of her all at once. People
even brought up her fake news six years ago.
She didn’t dare to scroll down anymore.
“Joann, you wait there! I’m coming to you.”
“Jay…”
“Listen to me, Joann, pull yourself together. Don’t be afraid. Wait for me!” Jaydon said, grabbing his car
keys and heading downstairs.
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