Take Back All She Lost novel Chapter 104

Chapter 104

Josephine sighed softly.

She furrowed her brows again and again, as if making a difficult decision.

She looked at the man beside her again.

“How about… we sing it together?”

“Sing together?”

Zachery was surprised again.

He had told stories to Natalia, read picture books, played games, and drawn with her… but he had never sung children’s songs.

And now, he was being asked to sing in front of Josephine.

What if Josephine laughed at him?

Zachery lowered his head and touched the tip of his nose.

Singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star‘ was also quite a challenge for Josephine.

She had sung this song to comfort Belinda before, but Belinda had looked at her with disdain

and said:

“Mom, you shouldn’t sing this song. It’s awful.”

At that moment, she had felt truly embarrassed and had sworn never to sing that song again.

But today, to comfort her little benefactor, she was willing to put her pride aside.

Seeing that Zachery didn’t refuse, Josephine steeled herself and said:

“I’ll count 1, 2, 3, and then we’ll sing together.”

“One…”

Zachery put his hands behind his back.

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He looked calm and dignified.

But as he listened to Josephine counting, he nervously pinched his fingers.

“Two…”

“Three…”

Zachery obediently opened his mouth: “Twinkle, twinkle…”

He didn’t even finish the first line before stopping.

He glared down at Josephine, looking fierce.

Was she tricking him? He had started singing, but her mouth hadn’t moved at all.

Josephine smiled apologetically: “Sorry, sorry, I was afraid that if I started singing, you wouldn’t join in.”

Zachery:

“1

Is that all the trust she had in him?

Josephine gave herself a pep talk: “Come on, let’s try again.”

“Twinkle, twinkle, little star…”

Josephine’s singing stopped abruptly as she angrily slapped Zachery.

“I started singing, so why didn’t you?”

Zachery rubbed his arm where Josephine had hit him, his laughter rippling like waves.

At that moment, Natalia was at the entrance.

She was giggling behind her hand, amused by the two adults on the video screen.

She couldn’t even remember what had made her sad just moments ago.

Natalia switched her camera to video mode and started recording the screen.

Outside the door, the two adults, whose ages added up to 59, began to sulk at each other.

“This is the third time. Whoever doesn’t sing is a dog.”

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“So harsh? Fine, let’s do it again.”

“One, two, three…”

Both of them started singing at the same time.

To make sure the other wouldn’t quit halfway, they kept their eyes fixed on each other.

Josephine’s voice was very soft at first, as if she lacked confidence.

Zachery was also awkward at the beginning, but since Josephine didn’t give up, he was determined to stick with her to the end…

Inside the house, Natalia laughed and laughed, but then felt like crying.

If only Josie were her mother, then the other kids wouldn’t call her a ‘bastard.‘

After finishing the song, both of their faces were a little red.

Josephine looked away and spoke to the video intercom:

“Natalia, if you don’t open the door, I’ll start to think I sang too badly.”

The door opened from the inside, and Natalia threw herself into Josephine’s arms.

Josephine was knocked back by the impact.

Zachery was behind her, catching them both steadily.

Josephine bent down, picked up Natalia, and asked gently:

“Aren’t you hungry? Why didn’t you come to Josie’s house for dinner?”

Natalia hadn’t wanted to go because she knew that if she saw Josephine, she wouldn’t be able to hold back her tears.

Now that Josephine had come to find her, sang to comfort her, hugged her, and cared for her, Natalia’s eyes instantly turned red.

Her voice was low and choked with sobs.

“Albert said I don’t have a mom, that I’m a bastard.”

“When I tried to play with Mia, he warned Mia not to play with a bastard.”

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“Then Mia had no choice but to join them and also called me a bastard.”

Josephine’s breath caught.

Her previously calm heart was instantly thrown into turmoil.

Bullying as a group?

She had experienced this kind of thing in elementary school.

She had been ostracized for having good grades.

Her father had taught her to fight back against anyone who made her unhappy, to give them a taste of their own medicine, but to do it with dignity.

But it seemed that neither Natalia nor Zachery had guided her in that way.

Josephine saw Zachery pressing his thin lips together, his face so dark it looked like it could wring out water.

“I’m going to talk to Albert’s parents right now.” Zachery turned around, full of authority.

Now that the little one was comforted, Josephine still had to find a way to ‘comfort‘ the big

one.

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