Chapter 49

"I'm very sorry. I know it's all my fault. Maybe if I hadn't just gotten sick you wouldn't have had to go through all of this." Carnation cried at what his father said. He touched her cheek and caressed her. "I should be the one taking care of you. I should be the one protecting my family and not you—"

"Daddy. . . Please I like to help and take care of our family," she defended herself. Her eyes welled up with tears. She went to her father's house after leaving Wren's. Carnation was in the taxi thinking about telling her family the truth about her job, her and Wregan's break-up, and the tragedy that happened to her a few months ago. She wanted to be truthful with her family and herself—it was time to face the facts.

Of course, her daddy and Aunt Leonora were shocked and really hurt by what they found out. If Leonora knew the hardship Carnation went through in her relationship with Wregan, she would have just kept quiet and wouldn't have teased her. Every ti