When he heard Ruth's apology, Ryan felt his heart ache. "You don't have to apologize. You have the right to choose not to go."
Ruth said self-deprecatingly, "I just don't know how to face everything all of a sudden. Ryan, do you understand the taste of despair?"
Ryan responded with a "hmm”.
The couple had nothing more to say.
*
Early the next morning.
Ryan and Ruth went to the Home of Quartley's cemetery to see Sawyer.
On the tombstone, there was a photo of Sawyer when he was a child. He smiled very charmingly.
Ruth covered her mouth with her hand and asked while crying, "Why didn't you put the photo after Sawyer grew up?"
Ryan looked at the photos and said in a complicated mood, "Because he changed after he grew up."
Ruth was silent for a long time and suddenly said, "Yes, Sawyer was so cute when he was young. Every time his relatives and friends saw him, they either gave him a red packet or a gift. They just wanted to tease him. Everyone said that this child looked good at the first glance, and he must have some achievements when he grew up."
"Mm.” Ryan's eyes were filled with memories as well.
Ruth couldn't help but smile bitterly. "But since we opposed him being with Sissi, he has begun to distance himself from us. Later, he went to the Streams Villa. You are right. He has changed. He is no longer the innocent child in our minds."
Ryan's eyes darkened. This woman, Sissi, had undoubtedly aggravated the death of Sawyer. If it weren't for her. Sawyer wouldn't have become enemies with Patrick and then become the enemy of the entire Hopper family.
"This photo you chose looks good," Ruth said.
In this way, they could often recall the happy and beautiful scenes when Sawyer was young.
Ryan nodded. "As long as you don't object." After a pause, he said, "Ruth, thank you."
"Thank me for what?"
"Thank you for your willingness to let Sawyer be buried in the cemetery of the Home of Quartley."
Ruth seemed to smile, but her face was pale as if there was no vitality.
Ryan was worried that she would faint from excessive sorrow again, so he said, "Ruth, let's go back."
"Okay." Ruth did not make any more noise. Instead, she became calm, as if her heart was about to die.
After thinking for a while, she said, "I want to say something to Sawyer."
"Alright, do you need me to stay away..."
Before Ryan could finish his question, Ruth suddenly bent down and hugged the tombstone in front of her. She said gently, "Sawyer, you'll always be my son."
Hearing that, Ryan turned around and secretly wiped away his tears.
*
After returning from the cemetery, Ryan asked the servants at home, "Is Abner up?”
"Grandpa, grandma."
A childish voice sounded from behind Ryan and his wife. A hint of pain flashed across Ryan's face, while Ruth stiffened.
Thinking that Abner was very likely to be Safa's grandson, Ruth felt uncomfortable. But even so, she quickly adjusted her expression and turned around to hug Abner.
Holding this little child in her arms, Ruth actually did not feel disgusted at all.
Her behavior made Abner, who had always been sensitive, ask, "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"
Ruth opened her mouth, but she couldn't say anything. She couldn't even say anything about Sawyer's death.
Although it was difficult, she still said, 'Abner, your father sneaked into the Ramsay Mansion and kidnapped Amelia the night before yesterday. Then, he was shot to death in the pursuit of the police."
Dead?
His father was dead?
Just like on TV, they put a person in a rectangular box. No matter how the people around him called his name, he would not open his eyes again.
His father had also been put into a box and could no longer wake up?
Seeing that Abner's soul seemed to have been sucked out of his body and he looked like a dull and boring puppet, Ryan and his wife instantly panicked. "Abner? Abner!"
*
Abner returned to what he used to be.
He didn't speak, cry, laugh, or let others touch him. He locked himself in the room all day, and nothing could stir up his facial nerves and emotions.
"Ryan, we can't let it go on like this! It's been three days, and Abner has always been in this state. I'm afraid he'll suffer from autism!"
Ruth's worries were the same as Ryan's. However, he didn't have any good ideas right now, so he could only be anxious.
"It's all my fault! I shouldn't have told him the truth that day! He is so young, how can he stand it? I can't stand it myself!" Ruth was so anxious that her heart ached.
"I got it!" Ryan suddenly came up with an idea. "We can go and find Amelia. She'll definitely have a solution!"
"Miss... Miss Amelia Ramsay?" Ruth was even more at a loss. "Are we really going to disturb her? Maybe she doesn't want to see us at all?"
"Ruth, you..."
Ruth smiled bitterly and said, "In fact, I want to take Miss Amelia Ramsay to do the DNA test immediately. I don't know how to say this to her. She will definitely think that I am either crazy or have some ulterior motives.”
Ryan could understand his wife's feelings very well. When he first found out that he was Amelia's biological father, he had the same reaction. He wanted to see her right away, but he was also worried that his daughter would be disgusted by his words.

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