Chapter 225: Chapter 225

“What if we… get caught again and can’t escape?” The boy’s voice rang out.

“That’s a silly thing to say, With me here, how can we not escape? I’ll definitely take you with me and escape!”

“If you ditch me, you’ll definitely be able to escape.”

“There’s no way I'm going to ditch you! I said that I will protect you, so I’ll protect you! I’m not afraid of those bad guys!”

“Why aren’t you going to leave me?”

“Because we’re friends!”

“Ah!” Grace opened her eyes with a start. In a flash, she sat up on her bed with her eyes wide open.

What entered her line of vision was the pale rays of light.

This was her apartment!

Grace abruptly breathed in as she looked at the time. It was only three in the morning.

Did she… have a dream? It seemed that she had dreamt of a conversation between her younger self and a boy. Furthermore, that song… the same one she’d heard in the car with Brian.

Good heavens, why would she have had a dream like this?

However… the situation in the dream had such a realistic feeling to it. It was as if it had really happened before…

At the same time, over at the Hart pack’s mansion, the lights in one of the rooms were still on. Brian sat in front of a painting, looking at it silently.

In the painting, a little girl was carrying a little boy on her back as she advanced through a thorny forest.

His fingers glided slowly over the little girl’s face as he said in a low voice, “When will I finally be able to see you again?”

His mumbling voice seemed to hold some yearning, regret, loss, as well as an unspeakable pain.

There were some people and some things that would never be forgotten with time and would instead become even brighter as time passed until they eventually turned into a form of obsession.

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Two days later, First Uncle called to urge Grace to pay for her quarter of the medical fees. After thinking it over, Grace decided to make a phone call to Lina Sweeney.

“Lina, can you lend me 7,500? I kind of need it urgently, but I won’t be able to pay you back straight away. Maybe just a little bit each month,” Grace spoke with some difficulty. After all, the person she did not want to bother the most was Lina.

Lina had already done so much for her, yet she was unable to repay her in any way.

“Sure, I’ll transfer it straight to you with my phone,” Lina replied readily.

“Thank you,” Grace uttered the two words softly.

“Grace, there’s no need to say those two words between us. You don’t have to rush to pay this money back either. Whenever you have money, you can pay me back then,” Lina reassured her.

Despite those words being spoken, Grace still wanted to clear the payment as soon as she could.

She could not owe Lina too much.

This was why when Claire told her about a part-time job to earn some extra income and asked if she wanted to do it, she fervently agreed.