On the Ruins of His Regret I Soar novel Chapter 235

They checked into a hotel nearby. While Rebecca showered, Jessica took Amy out for dinner.

“Don’t you have anywhere else to live?” Amy asked.

“I do, but it’s not convenient to take you there right now. So for this weekend, you’ll just have to put up with a hotel.”

Amy wrinkled her nose. “Mommy Catherine says hotels are dirty.”

“Well, besides the hotel, I can also take you to live under a bridge.”

Amy fell silent. Jessica was learning that with Amy, you couldn’t be too firm or too soft; you just had to counter everything she said. It seemed to work. The thought of sleeping in a hotel was apparently much better than sleeping under a bridge, so Amy stopped complaining.

After dinner, Jessica picked up a meal for Rebecca and dropped it off at her room. Then she and Amy went to theirs.

“I want to watch cartoons,” Amy demanded.

“Your teacher said you have to listen to two stories first before free time,” Jessica replied.

Amy plopped down on the carpet, looking disgruntled.

Jessica opened the audio file the teacher had sent to the parent group. “Listen carefully. There will be questions afterward.”

“I don’t want to listen,” Amy said, covering her ears.

Jessica pulled her hands away. “On Monday, every other kid in your class will have heard these two stories. You’ll be the only one who hasn’t. If you’re okay with standing there looking clueless while everyone else is talking about them, then you don’t have to listen.”

“I can listen on Saturday,” Amy mumbled. “I never said I wouldn’t.”

From the crack in the door, Jessica saw her sitting up straight, listening intently, and smiled.

After a weekend at the hotel, Jessica took Amy to kindergarten on Monday morning. One of the teachers, not Pamela Scott, but a kind, gentle woman, was greeting students at the door.

She smiled when she saw Amy and bent down to pat her on the head. Then she looked up at Jessica. “Was Amy a good girl at home this weekend? Did she listen to the stories?”

Amy’s ears perked up, waiting anxiously for Jessica’s response.

Jessica smiled and nodded. “She completed all her assignments and was very well-behaved.”

Amy breathed a silent sigh of relief.

“That’s wonderful,” the teacher said. “Amy is a very bright girl. If she keeps up the good behavior, she’ll be even smarter.”