Anya cried her eyes out and she had no idea how long she had been crying.
She kept talking to her mother after she chilled out and dried the tears.
"I hate him. I've finished the divorcing procedures with him today."
"I'll leave the country in a few days and I can't visit you often then. It's my bad but I've got no other choice. Please forgive me, mom. I just can't stay in Riverside City or the country any more. I feel breathless here."
Anya had done psychological counselling while she was in hospital these days. Jean had introduced a good psychologist to her, otherwise she would have been depressed.
She kept seeing the psychologist for a few days and she felt much better now. But she still couldn't stay in this city any more. She came say goodbye to her mother today and she would leave soon
She knew Lorie couldn't respond to her, but she still came anyway.
"Don't worry, mom. I'll study hard. I promise."
Anya took her hand and gnashed the words one by one, "An eye for an eye! For those who have hurt us or betrayed us, I swear I'll make them pay for whatever they've done."
They must pay for it, especially her father and the home-wrecker's family.
They were living a good life abroad now and it was built on her mother's sorrow and pain. She swore she would seek revenge on them and make them pay!
Revenge was only thing that kept her living on.
Anya had finished talking to Lorie and was about to take her hand back. Right at the moment, she found Lorie's hand move slightly. It seemed she tried hard to grab Anya's hand but she was too weak to do it.
Anya was frozen and she couldn't believe her eyes.
Lorie just moved her hand!
She came talk to her mother every week in the past few years, but she had never responded to her. Anya had given up all hope that Lorie would wake up again.
When she saw her slight finger movement now, Anya's mind went blank. She was so shocked that she just forgot what to say or what to do.
At the time, Lorie moved her slender hand again.
"Doctor! Doctor!" Anya cried out.
She was so anxious and excited that she turned around to run out of the ward. She was nearly tripped down by the chair.
"Doctor, my mother's finger has moved!"
While Anya was running and crying out, Lorie's attending doctor and nursing worker ran over in haste.
Anya ran forward and grabbed the doctor by the arm, "Dr. Choffard, please have a look. My mother's finger has moved just now."
The middle aged attending doctor looked unbelievable too. But he just kept running to the Lorie's ward as soon as possible and did a series of check-ups for her.
Anya was waiting anxiously while the doctor was doing the check-ups for Lorie.
"It's a miracle!" Dr. Choffard finished the check-ups for Lorie and sighed with astonishment.
"It's a modern medical miracle!" he exclaimed again, "Your mother has been unconscious for so many years but she has shown the sign of regaining consciousness. There's only a twenty percent chance to wake up medically."
"Congratulations! You've become one of the twenty percent ones."
She owed it all to her mother. Lorie had endowed her with everything, including her expertise in piano as well as her beauty and the inherent temperament.
But she had made herself a spoiled and unruly girl after she met Phil.
When she was first with Phil, she did act up all the time, intentionally.
She pretended to be spoiled, wild and unruly. She acted to be an unlovable person so that Phil would hate her.
But Phil just bore with all of it. Instead of hating her and divorcing her, he turned out to love and care about her even more.
She didn't figure out what Phil really wanted for the time being, so she restrained herself bit by bit over time.
Anya could feel the slight movement of Lorie's fingers when she talked with her.
She was amazed and tried to communicate with her.
"Mom, move your fingers again if you can really understand what I say. OK?" said Anya, softly.
As expected, Lorie moved her fingers slightly in response.
"Amazing! Since you're getting better, I am not going to study abroad. I'll stay and take good care of you until you fully recover."
Anya made the decision happily.
She hadn't imagined there was any chance that her mother would wake up some day and she was going to study abroad on her own. Surprisingly, Lorie made a breakthrough right before she left. Of course, she would stay for her.
She didn't care whether she had to face up to Phil again in Riverside City as long as Lorie was getting better day by day.
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