Bab 188: "I promise. I will."

"Mom, did mother Mila contact you?" Christopher asked Ethel.

It's nine in the evening, and Christopher is getting worried because Mila isn't home yet. He asked Ethel because she's the only one in the house who owns a mobile phone.

Ethel stopped crunching down on her chips and looked at the wall clock 

"Hmm? I didn't notice. Is it already this late?" Ethel hurriedly took her phone and checked her messages. She was enjoying watching the series on TV when she lost track of time. It's for her to realize that she's the only one who isn't wearing an anxious expression. Her child and her daughter-in-law were sitting on the same couch as her, but they were looking at her and not the TV. She could see Robert just quietly standing near the door staring at it, as if Mila would go home faster if he kept staring at it.

"Hmm? She texted me. She said she wouldn't be coming home. She was transferred to a new branch."