Chapter 149

"Can you tell me what exactly happened? How did Ella end up with a fever?" Ethan sniffled, tears still clinging to his lashes. "I wanted to go play downstairs tonight, so I brought Ella with me. It was super windy outside, and I didn’t realize she was shivering the whole time. After we got back, she started showing signs of a cold… I didn’t think it'd get this bad." "And where was your nanny?" James’s tone turned sharp. Honestly, how could she miss the signs when a kid was getting this sick? "Amanda’s son caught a flu. I told her it's okay to go home and look after him. Before she left, she tried calling Isabella a bunch of times, but no one picked up. She looked so panicked that she was crying. I told her I could take good care of Ella, so she left." James immediately understood—he got it wrong; the nanny wasn’t being negligent. Ethan hadn’t mentioned every little detail. Amanda’s son suddenly came down with a bad flu, and that very same day, her mom pulled her back and her dad’s heal