Charlotte had long since regarded Olivia as her own daughter, so seeing Olivia in distress, how could Charlotte not feel heartache?
"It’s okay, didn’t the doctor say she’s out of danger? Oliver Hudson is protecting Annie at the hospital, nothing will happen."
Charlotte responded with a nod, her face fraught with worry as she returned to Stardust Garden with Justin Battleson.
At that mont, the children were sitting side by side on the sofa, watching a cartoon. Seeing Justin and Charlotte arrive, they gathered around.
"This is the little cake great-grandma made for us, I specially saved so for Annie..."
Hank produced a piece of cake from sowhere, only to realize that Olivia was not there.
"Hey, where’s Annie?"
Hank’s words drew the other children’s attention to the fact that Olivia had not returned with Justin and Charlotte.
"Your godmother is sick and in the hospital; Annie is staying with her there," Charlotte said, deciding not to hide the truth from the children.
"Godmother is sick? How did that happen?" Grace lifted her face to look at Charlotte and grasped the hem of her shirt.
"What illness is it, is it serious?"
Seeing the worried looks one after another on the children’s faces, how could Charlotte have the heart to tell them about what happened on set today?
She could only find so excuse to brush the matter off.
But Charlotte’s children were one smarter than the next, especially Cyrus, who could tell sothing was amiss just from Charlotte’s expression.
"Mummy, you don’t need to hide it from us; what exactly happened?"
Charlotte sighed and squatted in front of Cyrus, thinking that if she kept on hiding the day’s events from the children, who knows what ans they would use to investigate.
"Your godmother had an accident on the set today. She got injured and was taken to the hospital."
Hearing that Annie Anne was hurt, worry spread across the children’s faces.
"Mummy, we want to visit the godmother at the hospital," Hank said without hesitation, voicing the thoughts of the other children as well.
Charlotte knew full well that if she revealed Annie’s situation, this would be the children’s reaction.
"It’s late already, let’s not disturb your godmother anymore, let her rest well. How about after school tomorrow, mummy will take you to visit her?"
Charlotte wasn’t opposed to the children’s wish to visit, but it was already late today, and it wouldn’t be appropriate to take them there now.
"But mummy... tomorrow you have to take and Chad back to the Ross family."
It was at this point that Jack suddenly piped up.
Only then did Charlotte rember that tomorrow was Mr. Ross’s birthday, and the Ross family was holding a banquet.
One thing after another made Charlotte feel a headache looming, and thinking about tomorrow’s family banquet at the Ross’s, she anticipated that there might be quite so strife.
Charlotte didn’t let any of this show on her face, worried that the children might notice sothing.
But now that Jack had brought it up, Charlotte also rembered the matters that Adam had ntioned when he ca to see her and Justin.
Charlotte slowly squatted down, placed her hands on Jack’s shoulders, and beckoned Chad over with a wave of her hand.
Looking at the obedient expressions of the two children in front of her, Charlotte, after so deliberation, slowly began to speak:
"Jack, Chad, there’s sothing mommy needs to tell you."
The thought of having to tell the two children about their biological mother made Charlotte’s heart ache with an indescribable pain.
These hesitations shown by Charlotte, in the eyes of Jack and Chad, appeared to convey a different aning entirely.
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