Chapter 33. The Woman out of Reach (2)

Taking a deep breath, Flora decided to break the silence: "Thank you for helping me take care of the kids."

"It's nothing, just what should be done. You don't have to thank me..." Matthew forced a smile: "I always feel a deep connection and desire to be close to the kids... Sometimes I wish they were mine."

Flora sighed, her voice soft: "Well, they are..."

"What did you say?" Matthew didn't catch her whisper and asked again.

But she just shook her head, steering the conversation to another topic, not any cheerier. Just that, they both knew they'd have to face it sooner or later.

She abruptly raised her head to look straight into Matthew's face: “You're marrying Selena? That... it's not true, is it?”

Even now, she clung onto a shred of hope that everything was just a dreadful nightmare. The man who professed his love for her just the day before, who wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, couldn't possibly marry someone else.

Yet he no