Ch. Forgot what 18 Forgot what 18

**18** 

The next morning, my parents, who had been absent since I fell ill. 

Came to visit me, carrying a beautiful cake. 

They cried and admitted their mistakes to Christian. 

They begged him, for my sake, to spare the Davies family. 

They wanted to hold a grand birthday celebration for me, to make up for 25 years of 

neglect. 

But Christian looked at the large, three-tiered cake. 

He scoffed: 

“Lily is allergic to mangoes. As her parents, didn’t you know that?” 

Mom and Dad looked embarrassed. 

Christian had them thrown out: 

“Get out. Go get yourselves reformed inside. Next life, don’t be parents and ruin children.”