Chapitre 376: Chapter 374 Shall we go to sleep?

She stood motionless, feeling Samuel Johnson's trembling embrace, unable to fathom the meaning behind his shaking at this moment. Shouldn't this man be happier? She hadn't brought back an illegitimate child to him, that unwanted child who finally vanished along with his wishes.

Smooth sailing since birth, how could someone like her, abandoned even by fate, possibly hold on to something he didn't want?

Hanging her head low, with indifferent eyes fixed on the void, the feeling of being hugged by Samuel Johnson was strange, like being held by a cold air mass. Apart from the chill, she felt nothing else.

Samuel Johnson held her tightly, and for the first time, understood how great the pain of past injuries was, so profound that not even the passage of time could mend them. Even now that he had brought her back, the damage could not be undone.