Chapter 8
My mom sat numbly on the hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages, while children gathered around the other beds, softly comforting their injured parents.
Only my mom sat there alone, her gaze vacant as she watched the scenes of familial tenderness around her.
Alpha Nolan had taken care of everything for her and went to ask the doctor about her condition.
Curious onlookers tried to start
conversations with her. “Alpha looks out for you so much; what’s your relationship?”
“He… is my daughter’s husband…”
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The person smiled and said, “So why hasn’t Luna come? I’ve always wanted to see what our Luna is like. I heard she’s kind, but a bit thin.”
Hearing this, my mom’s face grew increasingly somber.
She jumped off the bed, pointed at the person, and yelled, “What does it matter to you if my daughter comes or not? Mind your own business! Whether she comes or not is none of your concern!”
Everyone in the ward looked at my mom with strange eyes.
She fled the room in a hurry.
As she ran out, her gaze fell involuntarily on a little girl.
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The girl was thin but had bright eyes, remarkably like how I looked as a child.
Taking advantage of a moment when no one noticed, my mom secretly took the little girl
away.
She brought the girl to a secluded corner.
“Don’t be afraid, sweetie, I once had a daughter who looked just like you.”
From her pocket, my mom pulled out a faded old photo.
Pointing to the girl standing in the corner, she said to the little one, “Look, my daughter looks so much like you.”
Unable to help herself, she marveled and then broke down into tears as she looked at
the photo.
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In an innocent tone, the little girl pointed to the girl in my mom’s arms in the picture and asked, “Who’s this little girl?”
My mom hesitated for a moment, then softly spoke, “She’s also my daughter.”
“Then why is this sister in your arms, and that sister hiding in the corner? Don’t you love her?”
My mom sat there lost in her thoughts.
“Yeah, why was she only meant for the corner? She’s my precious too!”
The little girl took my mom’s hand and pointed to the picture of me, asking,
“Auntie, where is this daughter?”
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“She went far, far away; she’s angry with me, so she left…”
My mom sat dejectedly on the ground.
Her entire being felt as if the life had been drained out of her.
This was the first time she realized how excessive her behavior had been all these years, and the first time she admitted that Odelia, too, was precious in her heart.
She missed the daughter she had once blamed.
The little girl, worried, held my mom’s hand gently.
“Auntie, let’s go find her together, okay?”
My mom lowered her head, “We can’t find
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her. But when my daughter got her first job, she bought me a gold ring. I lost it by the lake that day, and I want to find that gold ring.”
It was then that I remembered how much I longed for my mom’s approval.
I spent an entire month’s wages on a pure gold ring for her.
Back then, I hoped to see an expression of praise on my mom’s face or even just a smile.
But there was nothing.
She simply glanced at it and tossed it into a drawer.
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From then on, I understood that nothing I did really mattered.
