Corinne had been waiting for Jeremy all this while, yet he ran off with one of the babies.
‘Poor thing still doesn’t know what happened,’ thought Xante with a sigh.
Someone knocked on the door again. Xante went to open it, and two nurses brought in the
twins. She was about to close the door when she remembered Sunny was outside. Her
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇthand paused on the doorknob as she turned to look at him.
At that moment, Sunny had noticed the nurses with the babies, so he tiptoed to catch a
clear glimpse of them before they went in.
Seeing this, Xante said, “The boss is awake. Why don’t you come in and see the babies
too?”
Sunny was a little taken aback, but he then bashfully came in.
The two nurses took turns to show Corinne her babies.
Corinne was so weak that she could not even raise her hand, so she did not dare hold the
babies for fear of dropping them.
A rush of warmth flooded her heart when she saw the babies in the swaddle. They looked
so small like some kind of hairless animal. They had taken after their stoic dad in terms of
their eyes and noses.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmCorinne’s chest tightened again at the thought of Jeremy. She felt like she could not
breathe.