NovelBookChapter 1149: "You..." Hadley's eyes widened, her breath catching as her body quivered with shock. Words failed her, her lips trembling in silent distress.
"Hadley?" Eric, ever attentive, was at her side in an instant, his concern palpable as he sensed her unraveling.
His gaze hardened as he turned to Noreen, seizing her arm and ushering her toward the door with urgency. "Out -now!" "Ouch!" Noreen winced, clutching her arm in protest.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtEric's jaw clenched, his voice low and fierce. "Leave. Don't test me, or I won't hold back-woman or not.” Noreen caught the steely glint in his eyes, a warning that brooked no argument. She straightened, defiance still simmering beneath her fear.
"Fine, I'm going! But don't think I'm a coward-I'm dead set on protecting my son." Her parting shot hung in the air, her anger still boiling beneath the surface.
was venomous. "Brady won't be donating his bone marrow. Tell Hadley to give up her foolish hopes!" With that, Noreen fled, nursing her bruised pride and arm.
Eric, his thoughts solely on Hadley, hurried back inside.
He found Hadley rooted to the spot, her frshaking violently, as if caught in a storm of her own making. "Hadley?" Eric's heart twisted at the sight. Gently, he guided her to the sofa, alarmed by the icy chill of her hands.
"Are you alright?" he pressed, his voice soft but urgent.
Hadley's gaze was vacant, her eyes locked on sdistant memory. In a whisper, she echoed Noreen's barb, "I'm a walking jinx just like she said..." Eric's chest tightened. He enveloped her cold hands in his warm ones, his tone firm yet tender. “That's just spiteful nonsense from a bitter soul." "Is it?" Hadley's voice wavered, her eyes brimming with unshed tears. A wry smile flickered across her lips, tinged with sorrow.
She shook her head, her words soft, as if confiding in the shadows. "Years ago, after my parents' marriage crumbled, my mother broughtback to our quiet hometown where my grandmother resided, Dracnesse Town. I couldn't accept that my father had abandoned us. Stubbornly, I would slip away, searching for him, desperate to believe he still cared." Eric knelt before her, his eyes lifted to meet hers, steady and patient.
brings magic to life A fragile smile touched Hadley's lips as tears traced paths down her cheeks.
"Each tI vanished, my mother would scour the town for me... That night, it was my grandmother who found me. But my mother... she never chome." Eric's heart plummeted. "Hadley, you don't have to relive this," he urged, his voice thick with empathy.
But Hadley's bitter laugh cut through, as if she hadn't heard him. She pressed on, lost in her tale.
"The following dawn broke, yet my mother remained missing... daysn later, a somber message reached my grandmother—she had been found, but..." Hadley's voice broke, tears spilling freely now.
"My mother... she had been searching foralong a treacherous mountain trail. It was too dark she lost her was too footing and fell... she fell!" Her eyes squeezed shut, haunted by the final, cruel image of her mother. "She was covered in blood all over... oh..."
Els "Hadley!" Eric rose swiftly, cradling her head as he drew her into bism arms, his embrace a shield against her pain. Share to your friends
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