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Yvonne naturally had no objections, and Baron, watching the two of them chatting together as if he no longer
existed, could only shake his head with a bitter smile. “Take a few more bodyguards with you. | really can’t get
away right now, but later I'll make tto take you out shopping myself.”
“Alright.” Natalie nodded, and Baron left quickly.
Not long after, a man in a silver mask-Witch Doctor-slipped out from the villa’s back door and got into a car,
leaving immediately.
Meanwhile, Natalie and Yvonne went to the mall, bought a few things, and then headed to Alice Hospital.
By the tthey arrived, Ruby had already been pushed inside for treatment, and Witch Doctor was there as
well.
Flynn spotted Natalie the moment she walked in and rushed toward her. “Ms. Summers, why are you here?”
“I heard Mrs. Stone's condition wasn’t good, so | cto see her. How is she?”
Flynn shook his head, his expression heavy. “It’s not just clotting. My mom’s mental state isn’t good either. But
still... thank you, Ms. Summers, for coming to see her.”
“Of course. After all, this only happened because she donated her skin for me. If anything happens to her, | won't
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtbe at peace with myself.”
While they were speaking, Waylon hurried in, sweat streaming down his face, his expression anxious and deeply
worried. Seeing him like that stirred something in Natalie.
“Sir, don’t worry, Witch Doctor has already gone in. Mrs. Stone will be fine.”
Waylon turned toward the voice. The moment his eyes landed on Natalie's face, he froze.
“You...”
His eyes widened, as though he were seeing a ghost.
Natalie stiffened at his expression and instinctively glanced at Flynn.
Flynn quickly tugged his father’s sleeve. “Dad, this is Ms. Summers, the one who received the skin donation. She
heard about Mom's condition and cto see her.”
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Sensing something wrong in Waylon’s reaction, Yvonne immediately stepped forward, pulling Natalie behind her
protectively. “What are you doing?”
This wasn’t the first tNatalie had seen such an expression on Waylon’s face. Her brows furrowed as she
asked, “Mr. Stone, is there something wrong with my face?”
Waylon startled out of his trance and hurriedly shook his head. “No. It’s just... you look so much like my wife
when she was young.”
If their daughter had lived, perhaps she too would have been this beautiful.
The thought of his lost child brought a heaviness to Waylon’s heart. That early death had left his wife with a
wound she could never heal.
Natalie was momentarily stunned. Flynn had once said she resembled one of their relatives who had died, and
now Waylon was saying she looked like his wife, though his wife was clearly still alive. The contradictions only
left her more puzzled.
“Mr. Stone, isn’t Mrs. Stone inside being treated right now? What exactly is going on with her?”
Waylon's gaze lingered on Natalie's face, so uncannily like his wife's younger self, before he let out a long sigh.
Slowly, he told her about their daughter.
By the the finished, his eyes were red. “My poor little girl... she was beautiful from the moment she was
born. My wife was overjoyed, saying she looked just like her. We thought it was such a blessing. Who would have
thought that just three days later, she would suddenly die? From that moment on, my wife was never the same.
She blamed herself, and her depression only worsened. To tell you the truth, Ms. Summers, sometimes | wonder
if her clotting now isn’t something she’s brought on herself.”
Natalie frowned. “Why? Why would she do that to herself?”
Waylon gave a bitter smile. “Why else? She's tired of living. If my son and | hadn't kept such a close watch, she
would have taken her own life countless times by now. She's carried the guilt of our daughter's death all these
years. She believes it was her fault, that she didn’t take proper care of the baby, and that’s why our little girl
died so young. She’s never been able to let it go.”
Natalie fell silent, not knowing what to say. A mother like that was undeniably devoted, but it was unfair to Flynn
and Waylon. After all, she wasn't just the mother of the daughter she had lost-she was still the wife and mother
of the family she had left.
“Mr. Stone, hasn't she seen doctors for this?”
“She has, but it never helps. She insists on locking herself into that memory. After giving birth, she was weak,
but she refused to let anyone else feed the baby. She was too tired, and while
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nursing, she dozed off. By the tshe woke up again, the baby had suffocated. No mother could bear such a
blow. Flynn and | never blamed her, but she’s never forgiven herself.”
Hearing this, Natalie could only sigh. After all the pain of bringing a child into the world, only to lose her so
cruelly-how could anyone truly recover from that?
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