Although he felt dissatisfied, he could only reluctantly follow them. When they arrived near the restaurant, Matthew looked around with surprise.
They arrived at the college town. College students were walking down the street, and various food stalls were giving off tantalizing aromas
Tammy looked around in amazement and said, “Wow! There are so many people!”
Healing Tammy‘s words, Anna couldn’t help but exclaim, “I haven’t been here in years. How did you find this place?
Ryan laughed “I remembered I had been here before I can’t remember who I came here with, but i feel like I used to come here a lot remember there was a really good barbecue restaurant here”
Anna’s eyes lit up, and she asked, “You‘re not talking about Ms Brown’s Barbecue are
“You know this place?” Ryan troze for a moment
* went to a college nearby six years ago, and that restaurant is one of the most famous in the neighborhood it’s been there for years, but unfortunately, I’ve never had the time to go there
“Then let’s go,” Ryan said
Then, all of them went straight to the barbecue restaurant.
It was not yet late at night, and the barbecue restaurant was already crowded with people. Luckily, they weren’t too late, and there was still space for them to sit.
Ryan ordered the dishes very skillfully, and then handed the menu to the waiter and said, “Two pizzas for the kids.”
After the waiter left, Ryan turned his head to Anna and found her looking around, looking just as curious as Tammy.
“Haven’t you ever been to a barbecue restaurant like this before?” “Not really.” Anna looked back and smiled at him with embarrassment.
“I’ve never had many friends, and they don’t usually like to come to these places. Although | quite want to come, I don’t want to come by myself.”
When she brought up what happened back then, she felt she had let it go. But in the past, she could have been sad for many years because she had no friends.
Back in Birmingham, no one had ever dared to be friends with her at school because Allie didn’t like her. So, she had no friends since she was a child. She was not at the same school as Allie in college, but her only good friend at the time stole her boyfriend.
Ryan saw Anna’s expression and inexplicably felt empathy with her as if his childhood was the same. He said, “I don’t seem to have many friends either. I’ve been missing for so long but no one called the police to report my missing.”
“It’s okay. Maybe someone will in the future.” After they chatted for a while, the waiter served the dishes they ordered. “The restaurant makes delicious grilled chicken wings. Tammy, do you want some?” “It’s okay, she’s not a picky eater.” Anna then placed the chicken wings on the plate in front of Tammy.
Ryan gave Matthew a meaningful look and said, “I’m not worried about Tammy. I’m more worried about Matthew. Has he ever come to a small restaurant like this?”
Anna looked at Matthew and noticed that he wasn’t pleased. He wasn’t eating the pizza on his plate and didn’t seem to want to eat the food on the table.
“Don’t you want to eat it, honey?” Anna asked with concern.
Matthew frowned and shook his head. Then he wrote on the little board, “I want to eat the pizza you make.”
Anna rubbed his head and said, “Okay, I’ll make you pizza when we get home, okay? But it’s dinner time, so you should at least eat a little. We’ll go home right after we finish eating.”
Hearing this, Matthew reluctantly nodded his head and slowly took a bite of pizza.
Anna knew that Matthew lived in a wealthy family and was only used to eating at fancy restaurants Although she wanted to finish her meal quickly and leave, Tammy kept eating and even packed a chicken wing, which took a long time.
After dinner, Anna drove Ryan back to the hotel before taking the two kids home.
She also made Matthew a pizza alter she got home. However, Matthew did not seem hungry and ate only a little bit.
Anna was suddenly woken up in the night by Tammy shouting,
“Mommy! Wake up!” She rubbed her eyes, sat up, and asked, “What’s wrong?” “Matthew’s stomach hurts, and he fell from the bed.”
Anna instantly woke up upon hearing this. She sat up immediately and ran to Matthew’s bedroom without putting on her shoes. She was extremely frightened at the sight of his tiny figure curled up on the floor.
“Matthew, Matthew!”
She touched his forehead and found it very hot. She was just about to pick him up when he threw up all over her.
“Mommy, what’s wrong?” Tammy was also so scared that her face went pale, and she spoke in a much smaller voice.
“Tammy, stay at home by yourself, okay? Sleep in my room. I’m taking Matthew to the hospital.”
“I’ll go with you.” “No, you can’t.”
After telling her daughter what to do, Anna carried Matthew downstairs and drove straight to the hospital without even having time to change her clothes. While she waited in the emergency room, the housekeeper from the Wright family arrived at the news.
“What’s wrong with Matthew? He was fine this afternoon.”
Anna said regretfully, “I don’t know. He’s been throwing up and having diarrhea, probably because he has eaten something unclean. I took him to eat something at a small barbecue restaurant in the evening. He didn’t eat much, just a few bites.”
The housekeeper’s expression changed as he asked, “What? How could you let Matthew eat at a place like that?”
“Matthew has a delicate stomach and he can’t have unclean food. How can you do that, Miss Gabriel? How am I supposed to explain this to Mr. Wright?”
After being questioned by the housekeeper, Anna didn’t know how to explain and felt very remorseful.
“Don’t worry, I will apologize to Mr. Wright myself. I’m sorry, it’s all my fault.”
Seeing her sorry attitude, the housekeeper didn’t know what to say. He sighed heavily and stepped aside to call Wayne.
The doctors admitted Matthew to the hospital after examining him. They didn’t know if he was sick because of eating bad food or something else. While waiting for the results, they gave Matthew a shot. Afterward, he seemed better and fell asleep.
Anna stayed at the hospital with Matthew. She looked at Matthew, who was sleeping and she felt very regretful.
They usually didn’t have many opportunities to spend time together, and she didn’t expect this kind of thing to happen. She felt that she was not a good mother and that if Matthew knew that she was his biological mother, he might blame her.
Anna stayed up all night. The next day, Anna went home to make breakfast before dawn. After telling Tammy to be a good girl, she returned to the hospital with a lunchbox.
She had just reached the ward door and was just about to push the door in when she heard a familiar voice coming from inside. She paused and subconsciously gripped the door handle tightly
“As soon as I heard that Matthew was hospitalized, I immediately rushed over. And, I brought him breakfast. I watched my nanny make the breakfast, and it was very clean.”
Ada’s voice was so gentle that it almost gave Anna goosebumps. Wayne replied calmly. “Thank you.” “Matthew, let me feed you.”
As Anna stood in the doorway of the ward, she could clearly see the two people standing in front of the bed Wayne and Ada were sitting left and right beside Matthew, and Ada was feeding Matthew with a bowl of soup in her hand, Anna lingered in the doorway for a moment, only to feel lost. She stood there for a while, turned around, and left.
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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