Entering the living room and sitting on the sofa, she looked at the other old people, "Dad, Mom..."
Before she could finish, the eye drops she had applied right before stepping out of the house took effect, her eyes turning red as she began to cry.
Olivia Ewards pretended to comfort Ella Martin as she sat next to her but whispered, "Ella, good job!"
Ella lowered her head, tugging at her somewhat revealing sleepwear, and whispered, "Victoria, do you really think this will work?"
Seeing the still-unconfident Ella, Olivia Ewards laughed and said, "Oh, my silly sister, it's like this now, how can it not work! Just go and please your future mother-in-law later!"
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In the bathroom, Robert Thomson thought about everything that had happened yesterday.
He was alone with Ella Martin, then she gave him a drink, and then… and then what? He had no memory of it! But this morning, what was going on?
