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"What? Your father came back? I... I thought he was dead?" Harries could not believe her ears. In front of her is Nathalie, who was still in shock as she witnessed her father earlier this morning.

She thought he was dead... or that was what she had come to believe as she was not sure where he could have been after they left them with all those debts he accumulated after indulging in gambling.

"What happened? Why did he come back? Why now when he had all the chance in the past?" Harries asked. Nathalie smiled bitterly. She remembered how silly she was expecting him to come back because he had finally come to his senses.

She was wrong. Again. She was wrong to believe that her father was a good man. He was... He was a good man.

Last night...

Nathalie kept shaking as she waited outside the emergency room. Johannes approached her, giving her a bottle of water. "Drink,"

She stared at him, her face full of worry. Nathalie could not even understand why she would worry about a man who had