Joshua put the phone down and took his phone out to call Alice.
The moment the call got through, a familiar ring tone came from the entrance of the elevator at the end of the corridor.
Joshua subconsciously turned to look.
A tear-streaked Alice looked panicked as she rushed over frantically. "Is Neil and Nellie alright? Why did they have to come for a body checkup?”
Seeing Alice’s tear-streaked and worried look, a layer o f detest washed over Joshua.
When he went back home to pick up Neil and Nellie, h e even deliberately asked Lily whether Alice knew that the kids suffered the night before.
"After you left last night, Mrs. Lynch entered the room and never came out again. This morning, once she got up, she headed straight down for breakfast and left straight away."
Lily's voice still rang in Joshua’s ears. "After making Neil and Nellie drink milk, she never stepped foot in the children’s room anymore."
Joshua looked at Alice walking over with teary eyes, and he suddenly felt miserable.
She was someone whom he loved deeply; he waited
six whole years for her to return to him. However, when she finally did, he realized she had changed tremendously. She was much different than the Luna Gibson he remembered.
Even at that moment, when he looked at her tears, he could not differentiate if they were real tears or fake ones.
Alice kept saying that she was Neil and Nellie’s biological mother and how the loss of her children for the past six years almost cost her her life. 1
At that moment, it was her time to spend quality time with her children, but it was only a week yet he already saw her aloofness and impatience toward them.
That was not how a mother who missed their children should act.
"Joshua."
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