The Return of His Unrivaled Ex-Wife by Zara Gibbon

Chapter 13

“Lilia has just woken up!”

“Okay, Mommy’s going to check on her first, alright?”

Joanna changed her clothes, washed her face and hands, disinfected herself, and then finally went to her daughter’s room.

“Lilia, Mommy’s home!”

“Mommy!”

Lilia Haynes was lying in bed, a big, bright smile on her skinny little face.

The little girl had been hurt by a congenital heart defect and hemolytic anemia ever since she was born. The hemamebas in her body were poorly hematopoietic. So she would need to be transplanted with new hematopoietic stem cells after some time.

For more than three years, poor Lilia had been lying in bed, unable even to stand up once. Her skin was covered with needle marks and scars.

The hospital bills and the cost of follow-up treatments were a heavy burden, and they also pushed Joanna to go forward.

Joanna’s biggest wish was that her daughter could recover one day, and she could see Lilia standing up.

“Lilia, does it still hurt?” Joanna was holding her daughter’s thin hand, and her heart was twitching with pain.

Whenever Joanna saw her daughter, she would have to try so hard to prevent the tears from welling up in her eyes.

Lilia shook her head slightly. “Not anymore.”

Joanna was chewing her upper lips to fight the great sadness inside. Her daughter had just had a major operation. The kid must pretend to be fine.

“Mommy, can I have some chocolates?” Lilia begged weakly.

The little girl’s mouth was filled with bitterness that was brought by the medicine during the operation. And she would like to eat something sweet.

How about this? When you get better, Mommy will

hearing this. She nodded obediently. “But is it okay if I have a look at the chocolate, then?

of course, you

chocolate in her little

Mommy, not until

Joanna’s heart to hear this. Tears finally overcame her and rolled down

daughter was not lying to her because the little girl was simply

care of Lilia!” With that, Joanna could not bear to stay with her daughter

of the nannies, looked at Joanna sadly. “I’ll take care of Lilia! But you need to take care of yourself, too,

“I will. Thank you.”

got out of the daughter’s room, stood at the door, and took a deep breath! Then she caught sight of her two sons sneaking

“What are you doing?”

“Huh? Nothing!”

laptop at

had spent too much of their time on it. However, Joanna had always been

stare at the screen for too long.

“Yes, Mummy!”

go wash your hands and get

down the chairs and snickered

bad guy. I couldn’t help imagining

down. We don’t want Mommy to know any of

bad guy. How dare he bully

read them bedtime stories until they were asleep. Then, at last, she could go

three o’clock in the morning, and finally, she was ready to

Chapter 13

day for years! And this kind of lifestyle had made it impossible for

Morning came soon.

Buzz, buzz, buzz…

could get up, Jaydon blew

calling me for at