Take Back All She Lost novel Chapter 118

She looked up at Josephine and asked, “Mom, is something chasing us?”

“No, no, it’s nothing.”

Josephine let go of Natalia, and when she unlocked the elevator with her palm print, she realized her hand was drenched in sweat.

“Natalia, do you still have any candy on you?”

“Yes.”

Natalia generously shared some with Josephine.

Only after Josephine had calmed down did she enter Zachery’s home.

Zachery was wearing a light gray polo shirt and black trousers, calmly stir–frying at the stove.

When he saw Josephine and Natalia return, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his eyes.

As Josephine changed into guest slippers, she said, “Natalia got a little hurt…”

Before she could finish, Zachery turned off the stove.

He washed his hands thoroughly, then, with a serious expression, carried Natalia to the sofa.

He took out the first aid kit.

Clean again, disinfect, and apply antibiotic ointment.

Josephine watched quietly, thinking to herself that this was making a fuss over nothing.

When she was a child and scraped her arms or legs, she wouldn’t even bother with iodine.

After Zachery finished treating Natalia’s wound, he stood up and glanced back, meeting Josephine’s gaze.

Josephine smiled at him

It was an impromptu smile, not very deep, and her expression remained calm.

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But in Zachery’s eyes, it was incredibly beautiful.

Josephine felt a little uneasy under Zachery’s gaze. She lowered her head and looked at Natalia, asking:

“Is Natalia’s injury okay?”

“It’s fine. I was just too nervous earlier.”

As Zachery spoke, he walked toward the kitchen.

Josephine felt he had more to say, so she followed him into the kitchen.

He spoke, and she listened.

“Natalia spent five months in the NICU just to survive. After she was discharged, even a minor cold could turn into severe pneumonia. She was constantly in and out of the hospital, getting injections and IV drips. The veins in her head and feet are all damaged in places. That’s why I don’t let her have cold drinks, don’t let her learn to swim, and I don’t want her to get even the slightest injury.”

Josephine listened, her mood growing heavy.

A father’s love is always so deep; now she could understand why Zachery was so cautious.

“Is Natalia’s poor health because she was born prematurely?”

“No, it was due to acute hypoxia during delivery.”

“Hypoxia? Did Natalia’s mother die in childbirth?”

As soon as Josephine asked the question, she immediately regretted it.

Wasn’t she just reopening someone else’s wound?

Trying to make up for it, she said, “You’ve done a great job raising Natalia. She’s physically weak, but she’s not the least bit spoiled.”

“She is…”

Zachery stopped himself mid–sentence.

He was afraid that if he said Natalia’s parents had also died in the Marisbury earthquake, it would bring back painful memories for Josephine.

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So he just said those two words and pressed his lips together.

Josephine raised her eyebrows in confusion.

After a moment, she suddenly understood that Zachery was answering her previous question.

She had asked: Did Natalia’s mother die in childbirth?

Zachery answered: She did.

Sigh, how heartbreaking…

Just as she was feeling emotional, Josephine’s phone rang.

She went to the entryway to get her phone from her bag. It was a call from the property management office.

“Ms. Copeland, sorry about this…”

“Hey, why are you grabbing the phone…”

Soon, Josephine heard Wilfred’s voice, cold as ice water and instantly sobering.

“Is Belinda really your biological child? How could you…”

“No! Tell her that she was born to Helena.”

Josephine hung up the phone.

She spoke quietly, so neither Natalia, who was watching cartoons, nor Zachery, who was cooking, heard her.

During dinner, Natalia said to Josephine, “I want to learn to swim, but Daddy won’t let me.”

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