Chapter 235

“Mommy... Daddy is hurt...” Millie sobbed on the other end of the line. She squeezed tears out of her eyes in a place where Mona could not see her. “How did he get hurt? Where is Daddy now? Pass the phone to him.” Mona was no longer calm and fell into the trap that the father and daughter had set for her. “Hey.” The man’s deep and magnetic voice sounded. It was Thaddeus. “Millie said that you’re hurt. Is it serious?” “It’s fine.” The man paused. “We’re in the hospital now. Millie is fine, but I broke a bone and need a wheelchair.” Mona was shocked. How was being in the hospital in a wheelchair ‘fine’? “Which hospital? I’ll go there now.” “The People’s Hospital.” “Okay, I’m coming over now.” Mona stood up, briefly told Linda the situation, and took a cab to the hospital Thaddeus told her about. When she arrived at the hospital, she saw Thaddeus sitting in a wheelchair and Millie obediently standing on her tiptoes to feed him water. He looked like... an old man who could not t