He saw the faint light through the white curtain, but he did not notice her eyes looking at him. He
pursed his lips tightly and wondered if it was just a momentary illusion.
At this moment, he supposed Dolores should be in shock at Armand's presence.
Dolores leaned back against the wall by the window and shivered. She had her hands over her chest.
She felt like a boulder had fallen on her chest, making it impossible for her to breathe.
She had to breathe hard to keep from suffocating. And she couldn't stop the complicated emotions from
overwhelming her.
The moment she saw him, she felt happy and worried.
She closed her eyes. It took her a long time to steady her trembling body.
He was not in front of her eyes, so she thought he was still dealing with Jeffery's matter.
She opened her eyes and reached up to lift the curtain to see him again, but she stopped her
movement for some reason.
Her hand stopped in mid-air, and she couldn't put it down.
She didn't know what she was struggling with or what she was afraid of. She was afraid she wouldn't
be able to keep her mind clear.
Then she slowly put her hand down.
She took a deep breath, pulled herself together, and walked to the closet to pack clothes for her two
children.
Summer clothes didn't take up much space in the closet. She hadn't brought her kids on a trip since
she came to City C, so she didn't have a suitcase at home. Therefore, she stuffed the clothes in a
duffel bag.
After she finished packing and came out, Armand was talking to her two children.
When Armand saw her come out, he stood up.
Dolores handed him the bag.
"I'll bring them back in a few days." Armand said. Because Matthew was going to White City to see
Jayden, he had to take the two children right away.
Matthew asked Armand to tell her that the kids would only be with him for a few days.
Because Matthew knew that Dolores needed those two children around her more than he did. Before
she knew who the father of the children was, she preferred to be a single mother and insisted on giving
birth to the kids, which was enough to show how much she loved them. Moreover, after she gave birth
to their children, she never separated from them.
Therefore, she was more attached to her children than he was.
"I'm okay with them staying with him for more days. And they must miss him too." Dolores smiled, "Are
you in a hurry to leave today?"
Armand nodded, "Yeah."
She looked at the two children, "Come here."
"Mommy." The two children threw themselves into her arms and clung to her legs left and right
respectively.
Dolores stroked their heads, "Didn't you say you missed Daddy? Now you can go see him. Are you
happy?"
"Yes." Amanda nodded her head repeatedly.
"But I don't want to leave Mommy either." Andrew rubbed his face against her.
When Armand saw that the children didn't want to leave Dolores, he reassured them, "I'll drive you
back in a few days. We'll go first today, for your daddy would like to see you two very much."
"Mommy..." Andrew was reluctant to leave his mother. If he wasn't going to see Grandpa, he wouldn't
leave Mommy and let her stay at home alone.
"All right, you guys should go now. And it's not like you're not coming back, right?" Dolores handed the
children over to Armand, "Please take care of them."
"I will." Armand took Amanda's hand and looked at Dolores, "Dolores, we should go now."
" Mmm, " said Dolores. As they walked to the door, Dolores thought of Theresa, who had gone to her
room, and called out to him, "Armand."
"Hmm?" Armand turned around.
Dolores quickly shook her head again, "Nothing. Please drive carefully on the road."
She wanted to talk to Armand about Theresa, but she felt it was inappropriate to do so.
Armand said, "Okay." He hesitated for a few seconds and thought he should tell her, "Jeffery turned
himself in..."
"I don't want to know anything about him." Before Armand could finish those words, Dolores interrupted
him.
She just wanted to live quietly and did what she wanted to do here.
She had chosen to leave because she didn't want to get involved in anything.
How was everyone else? It didn't matter to her who lived or died.
People might think she was cold-blooded and heartless, but she really had no deep feelings for the kins
she never spent time with.
She didn't want to carry too many burdens, and she couldn't carry them either. She was tired, so she
just wanted to live a simple life.
Armand pursed his lips and didn't say anything further. He mentioned this to tell her that Jeffery's
sentence had been handed down. Whatever the outcome of his sentence was, it had nothing to do with
Matthew, for Jeffery had turned himself in.
This was the only good thing Jeffery did, right?
And what Jeffery did made Matthew's relationship with Dolores not irredeemable.
Although Jeffery indirectly killed Victoria, he also redeemed himself by turning himself in.
Because Armand knew she didn't want to hear what he had to say, he didn't continue. Then he took the
two children to leave the house.
"Mommy, we'll be back soon." The two children turned around and waved to her.
She didn't go out to see them off. And then she stood in the foyer and waved at them, "Okay, I'll wait for
you."
Soon, the elevator opened, and Armand led the two children to the elevator.
"We are leaving now." Armand said.
Dolores kept a smile on her face and said, "Okay." Then she watched them get on the elevator. She
didn't take her eyes off the elevator until the doors had closed.
She just stood there and stared at the decreasing numbers on the elevator screen.
Six, five, four, three, two, one.
She counted the time. She tried to estimate when they would get off the elevator, walk out of the
neighborhood, and meet their father.
She slowly turned around and walked to the living room. She could've stood on the balcony and seen
the entrance to the neighborhood, but she didn't go.
Because she hadn't been separated from her children, she was afraid she might feel bitter about letting
them go. And she was afraid that he would see her.
She stepped over to the dining table, on which she still had the carrots her daughter had washed and
the red bean pastries her son had brought for her. However, she couldn't eat anything at the moment.
She felt her heart was heavy.
She just sat there in silence.
The clock on the wall was ticking away. And little by little, time passed.
Theresa came out of the bedroom and saw Dolores sitting there. Then she didn't say anything. She
opened the refrigerator, got a bottle of water, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
Even if Theresa didn't say anything, given Armand's presence, Dolores might have found out that
Matthew knew where she stayed.
"Did you feel down because the two kids left?" Theresa asked.
"A little, because I haven't been separated from them. But that's alright. After all, they're his children
too. And it was selfish of me to take them away."
She hadn't even let him have his children when he needed someone to be with the most.
"And they'll be back soon. Besides, you're not alone now." Theresa looked at her belly.
Dolores bowed her head and forced a smile, "Yeah. I'm not alone. I have him."
Because Dolores had something on her mind, she didn't really want to continue talking to her. Then
she went back to the bedroom, sat on the edge of the bed, and looked out the window.
Matthew knew this place, so what happened to her that night was probably real instead of being a
dream.
She looked back at the messy bed and leaned over to lie down, but she couldn't sleep anyway.
As it turned dark, she was overwhelmed by a sense of loneliness which she had never felt before.
Because her children were not with her, she was fully engaged in her work. And she received many
orders for Gambiered Canton Gauze. The original factory was already overwhelmed with high demand,
so she expanded production with the help of Oscar.
At noon, Theresa came back from her place and brought Dolores an express delivery.
She was designing a Chinese wedding dress for a client, but she had left the drawing at home. When
she went home to get it, the doorman told her she had a delivery. She looked and saw that it was
Dolores' package, so she brought it back for Dolores.
"I haven't bought anything lately." Who would send her a package?
Dolores' package, so she brought it back for Dolores.
"| haven't bought anything lately." Who would send her a package?
62fb1bb41dcb31934bd49bda