Howard's small eyes curved into crescents, the light inside them brighter than the setting sun.
Keira Leaf simply sat down in the mud, watching the two children bathed in the glow of the setting sun. All of a sudden, she felt bringing Howard back had truly been a wise decision.
Seeing the two children with such contrasting personalities constantly complementing each other as they grew, Keira thought: perhaps their life trajectories had unknowingly been altered. Howard might avoid becoming a spoiled, lazy, simple-minded wealthy second generation, while Jack was spared from becoming a cold, arrogant, and stubborn misfit.
Keira turned her head toward the nearly setting sun, her thoughts wandering to the child who had left her.
She and Joshua Sulliven hadn't even had the chance to give him a name. He hadn't even had the chance to glimpse this world. If he were still here, now he would probably be sitting in the car, watching his brothers play together.
