Alana didn't even have the courage to reply to her husband's desperate look at her, as if what she had just said was wrong.

"What do you mean?" Asking Alana in a way that sounds like a whisper, Alana has thought of the worst that Leo has now known, as alana had previously thought of such a thing as would happen to him, but Alana never imagined that it would be so frustrating to experience it in person, to look at Leo's disappointment in the face, to see his disappointment in his eyes make Alana's heart deeply hurt.

Rather than immediately answering Alana's words, Leo stretched out his hand and...