For the next few days, I stayed at the hospital with Mom and brought Lucas in for his follow-up checkup.
Lucas healed up perfectly. No scars left at all.
But Mom had started chemo, and she had already lost a good amount of her hair.
I never expected Leo to show up.
He politely held out a bag of gifts to me, oddly courteous for once, which was strange coming from him.
"These are for Mom. How is she doing?" he asked.
I arched an eyebrow at him and did not reach for the bag.
When someone offered an unsolicited favor, they were up to no good.
His company was not huge. If word of our mess got out, it would definitely hurt his standing with all his business partners.
All his groveling and sweet talking that day was just to get me to go easy on him.
Leo broke the silence first.
"I lost
