"Where's Amelia? Mom, is she here? I want to see her! Did you hear that? I want to see her!!"
Alice was left without a choice but to give Amelia a quick nod as greeting.
After that, Alice quickly grabbed her hand and pulled her into the ward. She then said to Brittany, who was lying on the bed and throwing things around, "Look, Brittany, who's coming?"
Brittany who was about to throw the alarm clock, the movement of her hand halted upon hearing this. She lifted her extremely pale face and looked in direction of Amelia.
Brittany's eyes were filled with hatred when she glanced at Amelia. Amelia could not help but tighten her grip on the fruit basket. She started regret of agreeing hastily to pay a visit to Brittany!
"Amelia, give me the fruit basket." Alice said from the side.
Amelia turned her head away and handed over the fruit basket in her hand to her and said, "Thank you, Aunty Alice."
"We are the one who need to thank you." Alice said guiltily.
Upon seeing Alice turned around to place the fruit basket, Brittany hurriedly waved her hand which was still clutching the alarm clock, as if she had gestured Amelia to come closer.
However, Amelia had already been frightened by her screaming and craziness when throwing things around. All she wanted to do at this moment was to stay away from Brittany as far as possible, let alone to approach her herself.
Pursing her lips, Amelia said, "Brittany, I'll stand here and listen. If you have anything to say, just tell me now."
Brittany glanced at her insidiously and said, "Sis, why are you so afraid of me? You're my life saver now. It's impossible for me to hurt you."
"Your life saver?" Amelia was confused by her words.
Brittany thought that she was still pretending, so she said, "The man in black found me falling at the very first moment. You were the one who sent him over, weren't you?"
Amelia sighed and admitted, "It's me."
Brittany nodded. The corner of her lips seemingly curled upwards a little, "Then you are my life saver."
Amelia was not used to Brittany calling her like this, "I didn't help you much. You don't have to call me
that. I don't feel comfortable with it."
Brittany curled her lips and invited once again, "Would you like to come over and sit with me for a while?"
Amelia nervously stared at the 'weapon' in Brittany's hand and said, "Put down the alarm clock first then we can see later."
Brittany threw the alarm clock away obediently. The clock rolled down from the bed to the floor before smashing into pieces. The tickling sound of the clock immediately stopped.
Amelia swallowed a little upon seeing Brittany's capability to destroy everything. She could not help asking, "Brittany, are you okay?"
A smear of depression flashed across her delicate but pale face, "I had a miscarriage right after my husband went into jail. Do you think I'm doing good?"
Amelia said, "You could only pull yourself together."
It was a pity that the baby was gone. However, considering her relationship with Brittany, after all it was not possible for her to truly understand her pain.
All she could do now was to do whatever on her part and leave the rest to be decided by God. This was also the principle governing on how Amelia had
been treating Brittany.
At this moment, the sound of stomach churning was heard in the ward.
Staring at Brittany's slightly frustrated expression, Amelia asked softly, "Are you feeling hungry?"
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