435 Disfigured
Samantha seed keen enough to sense that sothing was wrong and opened her mouth to ask, “Is there...sothing wrong with my face?”
Libby was still in her tender years and was unable to control herself. She shook her head repeatedly to try and assert that there was nothing wrong but her remarks had the opposite effect and drew more attention to it. “No! None at all, Miss! Your face is all good! There’s nothing wrong here!”
It could not be more obvious that sothing was wrong.
Samantha imdiately said, “Hand a mirror.”
Libby’s face scrunched up and she looked at Irene as if pleading for assistance.
Irene sighed and said, “Just hand it to her.”
The truth would co out eventually and it was not sothing that could be hidden.
Libby had no choice but to head over to the dressing table and fetched a small mirror. She walked back hesitantly and handed it to Samantha.
Samantha raised the mirror and looked at her face.
Although she had already guessed that there was sothing wrong with her face, her heart still tensed up when she saw a scar the size of a finger-joint on the right side of her face.
Every woman cared about their appearance, not to ntion soone as beautiful as her...
It turned out to have been disfigured...
The hand with which Samantha held the mirror started to tremble uncontrollably.
Alan comforted her after seeing what happened. “Ms. Gilligan, this wound was likely caused by an object inside the ocean. I’ve tried my best to stitch it up for you when you were rescued, but the scar is inevitable.”
“You don’t have to worry too much though. I’ve had discussions with several costic doctors while I was operating on you, and they’ve said that you can undergo so costic surgery once you are fully recovered. The doctors guarantee that the scar will be removed to the extent that it is unnoticeable in normal daily interactions.”
Irene imdiately said, “That’s right, Athena. I’ll find the best doctors for your costic surgery. You’re a very beautiful woman and your face will return to normal in no ti.”
Samantha did not want them to worry any further after hearing what they said, so she smiled gently, “I see. Thank you, Dr. Sherwood. Thank you, Mom.”
Alan packed up and left, but before he did, he made a point to tell Samantha to have more rest. Libby then sent him off.
Irene picked up the bowl and fed Samantha so dicine.
Samantha was not used to it and said, “I can do it myself, Mom.”
Irene refused and smiled, “Let do this for you, Athena. I’ve never had the chance to feed you dicine after all these years.”
Samantha acquiesced.
She was just a child in Irene’s eyes and the latter was trying her best to make up for the 20 years that she went missing.
After drinking the dicine, Irene used a paper towel to wipe the corners of Samantha’s lips. She then placed the bowl down and held Samantha’s hand while saying, “Your brothers will all be back in a few days, Athena. We’ll have a little gathering by then. They all miss you dearly.”
Brothers...
Samantha heard about the Gilligans’ family mbers through Libby in recent days.
Irene’s husband-Samantha’s biological father, that is-died of illness a few days ago. He and Irene had four children in total.
Before her ca three elder brothers, nad Horace, Augustine, and Samson. She was the youngest and her na was Athena.
She had seen photos of all three brothers. All three were very handso and the entire family had similar eyes.
Blood ties were a very mysterious thing. Even though she did not know what kind of people they were, she was already looking forward to seeing them.
Although...she wondered if they would like her, as her mother spoke to her.
Samantha nodded.
“Oh, yes!” Irene rembered sothing all of a sudden and smiled mysteriously. “We’ll have a mysterious guest at our family banquet this ti around.”
A mysterious guest?
Samantha was curious. “Who is it?”
Family banquets usually only involved mbers of the family or those who were close to the family. If her three brothers were the only other family mbers she had yet to et, then could the mystery person be soone who was very close?
Irene kept up the suspense and said, “It’s soone who knows you, but I won’t tell you who it is just yet. You’ll know when the ti cos.”
Soone who knows her?
Samantha beca increasingly curious. Who could that person be?
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