My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Chapter 2257

As the sky was getting darker, the worry I had for Evan and his family unsettled me greatly. Hence, I forced myself to call him. Unexpectedly, the phone connected immediately, but Evan's voice sounded a bit strange. "Is there a matter, Mrs. Roberts?"Content rights belong to NôvelDrama.Org.

I could pick up a certain suppressed tension in his words, so I lowered my voice. "Are Samantha and the children all right?"

"They are all right," Evan blurted out, seemingly afraid of my getting further tangled up in his situation. Briskly he came up with an excuse, ready to break off the conversation. "The kids are asking for me, I'm ending the call."

"Ev-" Before I could finish, the call ended.

Looking at the phone screen, which showed that the call had cut off, I laughed bitterly. Looks like I am as much the bane of others' existence, as Jordan and the rest. I was avoided like the plague.

With that in mind, I figured that it was safer for them to stay as far away from me.

After putting down the phone, I realized that Wynn and Aurelia were standing at the side of the living room, looking at me from afar, not saying a word as they held each other's hands. I hadn't realized that they were home until now.

I immediately adjusted my expression and opened my arms to welcome them. "Come over here, my babies."

Aurelia looked at my arms and immediately let go of Wynn, dashing towards me. She rammed herself onto me, causing me to fall back, then laughed happily as she held onto my neck. "Mom, mom, mom, I've missed you, and I love you so much!"

The warmth from one's own child is a remedy for one's gloomy soul. I smiled as I sat her on my lap. Then I patiently caressed and tidied the soft hair on her forehead as I asked her about school. "Tell Mom, what did you learn at school today?"

Aurelia immediately got up and went over to Wynn. Taking the art paper from Wynn's hand, she excitedly dashed back to me and opened it.

"Take a look, Mom! This is what I drew today! The teacher even praised me in front of the class and said I was the best!"

It was a simple crayon drawing with only a few colors. It looked like she had drawn some people. There were two big persons and four smaller ones. All of them were holding hands, facing the sun, happily playing on the grass as if time has stopped, and nothing else was in the way.

Even Neal was not forgotten, it seemed like Aurelia loved every single person in this house.

As I was studying it, I got a little lost in thought, forgetting to react. Hence, she became a little uneasy. "Mom, do you think my drawing is bad?"

"Of course not!" Only then did I come back to my senses. I immediately shook my head and kissed her on the forehead as a reward. Then I took out my phone to take a picture of it. "Now, Mommy will take a beautiful picture of it and share it on my Facebook, so everyone will know about my beautiful and brilliant daughter!"

As Aurelia smiled her eyes curved into twin crescents. She raised her head, staring foolishly at me like a chubby porcelain doll. "Mom, Aurelia has been so well-behaved, so you will always be by my side, right?"

I couldn't understand her words so I reached out and caressed the top of her head. "Why would you think that way? It doesn't matter how well- behaved Aurelia is, you will always be Mommy's sweet little baby."

Aurelia pouted and shook her head. "No, that's not what I meant. I've become too naughty, so that's why Dad won't come home. He probably doesn't want to get bullied by me anymore."

As she spoke, the child's eyes turned red, her little hands reached out and held onto my arms, shaking it. "Mom, tell Dad that Aurelia will behave now. Can you ask him to come back, Aurelia misses him..."

Her words were punctuated by her pearl-like tears falling, drop by drop, piercing through my heart.

I quickly hugged the child and

consoled her. After asking more, I

found out that in the days of Hendrix's absence, even though Aurelia had not mentioned anything to me, she'd continuously asked Wynn the reason behind it. However, Wynn didn't know what was going on among the adults. So he could only choose a reasonable excuse to pacify her. Who knew that Aurelia really believed it, and thought that Hendrix left because of her. Content

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Looking at his sister crying, Wynn too felt uncomfortable. With red eyes, he apologized, "I'm sorry Mom, I just didn't want Aurelia to have unnecessary thoughts, I never thought she was not well-behaved..."

They were both sensible children, so how could I not be moved when I saw them like that?

Signaling for Wynn to come over, I hugged the both of them in my arms, as tears started to fall from my eyes. I stopped myself from crying out loud. Children may often seem like they don't know everything, but they do.

After letting out their emotions, it was already nine by the time I put

the kids to sleep. Just as I was

about to prepare to rest earlier smet

that I could head to the hospital earlier the next day, my WhatsApp pinged.

The preview showed that Freya sent a short video. As I was about to pick up the phone, a few voice messages came through too.

After unlocking it, I habitually wanted to click on the voice messages but the short video caught my eye.

The guy on the cover was not just

et

anyone. It was Evan, whom I had just parted with earlier. Except he was now haggard, his eyes sunken and rimmed with dark circles. It was vastly different from the guy saw just that afternoon.

Shaking, I clicked on the first voice message and it played.

"Come on, let's see how we can deal with it."

"He was found in the alley behind Golden Roof Restaurant. Except for the few pinholes on the body, there were no other scars."

"I think he OD'd, the dose was huge. The person must have wanted him to get addicted from the outset!"

D*mn right, this is cruel to look at."

I was stupefied.

There was a buzzing sound in my head. So in the end, Hendrix still failed to protect him?