Chapter 14 Quiet Escape
While everyone busied in the kitchen preparing the welcome dinner.
I quietly opened the side door and slipped out.
Thinking of the Lin couple's careful care for me over twenty years.
Yet on the day their biological son returned, I messed everything up.
My eyes stung with tears.
I wandered aimlessly out the Lin family gate and bumped into the neighbor brother driving out.
He saw me alone by the road and stopped concernedly. "Lin Duo? What are you doing here alone?"
I forced a smile. "Ah, Mom asked me to... buy a bottle of soy sauce."
The neighbor brother smiled faintly, thoughtfully not asking more. "Get in, I'll give you a ride."
I knew it was hard to get a cab nearby. After hesitating, I didn't refuse and lowered my head to open the car door.