Did he say something wrong? Why did he feel like he was being mocked and why?
Blinking his round, large eyes, he asked, “Why is everyone laughing?”
Abigail simply picked him up to her seat. “You just stick with me, okay?”
“Why?” Tommy asked.
Abigail had no idea how to explain, when Zachary butted in. Because you’re a bother.”
Tommy frowned. “How did I bother you?”
Zachary was speechless, since Tommy was bothering James and not him.
Still, he said, “James just got married and you’re bothering his bride. How is that not a bother?”
“Aunt Erin is his wife, but she’s my aunt! And she said she loves me more.”
Zachary grinned. “Well, James can really love your aunt-“
“Shut it.”
He was cut short as everyone was glaring at him coolly, his poor choice of words incurring their wrath.
He gave in immediately. “Okay, my bad.”
Abigail in turn coaxed Tommy to sleep, saying that the plane would land once he woke up.
Tommy could not sleep, so Abigail brought him some food and some picture books, but he still was not drowsy.
By the time he was, their plane was almost landing, so Diarmuid carried him as they disembarked.
They called ahead, so Sheryl and the servants at the castle had already cleaned up and waited at the front door. As such, everyone could rest once they returned, and there was food waiting as well.
Abigail took Diarmuid to their room, telling him then that she returned in a hurry because of Lulu and that she would return to Zidonia.
Diarmuid naturally would not stop her, but he said, “I’m going with you.’
Abigail shook her head. “It’s fine. I’m sure you have a lot of stuff waiting at work—I just need Eagler with me.”
Diarmuid had more to say, but she wrapped her hands around his waist. “It’s alright. Just listen to me for once, okay?”
Diarmuid sighed and patted her head. “Call me if anything happens. Don’t do anything dangerous.”
Abigail nodded repeatedly and left before she even had a drink since there happened to be a direct flight soon.
Zachary was busy taking care of his daughter in his room and finally noticed that Abigail was gone when it was time for dinner.
“Where’s Abigail?” he asked.
Diarmuid looked up at him but stayed silent.
Zachary pursed his lips. “What?”
Diarmuid was not bothered to answer. “Eating can’t keep you quiet, it seems.”
James and Erin were holding back their laughter.
Zachary turned toward them. “That’s a married couple for you-you’re both equally unlikeable.’
“No more than you are,” James shot back. “Can’t even keep your mouth shut during dinner.”
Zachary was left speechless.
Abigail took a cab to New Kent after disembarking from her flight and contacted the officer who called her.
He gave her a ride to visit Lulu in a police car.
Abigail never asked anything along the way, and a foreboding feeling struck when the police car stopped outside a hospital.
She hesitated but did not get out of the car. “Lulu is here?”
“Yeah,” the officer replied and got out of the car. “You should come too.”
Eagle opened the door for Abigail, who stared outside for a moment before sighing heavily and getting out of the car.
She stood by it as she looked up and entered the hospital with the officer.
They traversed through the hallways and arrived at a ward when the officer said, “You best prepare yourself.”
Abigail’s heart skipped a beat even as she stood outside the ward, and she could not hide the quiver in her voice. “It’s that serious?”
She was afraid to imagine how bad things were for Lulu that the officer would say something like that.
Nonetheless, he said, “Go inside. You’ll see.”
With that, Abigail opened the door into the single-person ward.
There was a person laying in the bed placed next to the window, and Abigail strode over when she saw that person.
However, Abigail’s pace was somber and she was afraid that something terrible had really happened to Lulu… until she stopped in her tracks suddenly.
She could not recognize if the person was Lulu, since the person’s face was bandaged.
Abigail turned, and the officer at the door nodded. “It’s her.”
Abigail gasped, her legs suddenly feeling like they were made of lead and weighing a ton.
She was so close… yet the distance between her and Lulu felt so far!
In truth, she was just afraid of moving closer.
Nonetheless, she worked hard to control her breathing and slowly walked to the bed.
If the officer did not tell Abigail that the person on the bed was Lulu, Abigail would never have recognized Lulu.
Abigail pursed her lips in disbelief, her heart aching so much it hurt to breathe.
How did this happen? What did Lulu go through?
Abigail could not calm down for a long time as she felt like a storm was hitting her chest repeatedly!
The officer entered then and said, “I called you here to talk to her, to convince her to stay alive.”
“Why did this happen to her?” Abigail asked.
“Lulu wanted to avenge Captain York’s death and volunteered to work undercover-“
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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