She leaned on a cane, her back slightly stooped, and she walked with difficulty.


    The woman looked at him with a kind expression. "Mr. Coleman, my name is Eloise. I was your mother Nora''s housekeeper back in the day.


    I was the one who personally looked after you and Mr. Israel when you were boys."


    At the mention of Nora''s name, Coleman stopped in his tracks.


    "You used to work for the Williams family?"


    Eloise nodded, reminiscing, "Back then, I desperately needed money, so I went to interview as a servant for a wealthy family.


    Someone like me, with no work experience, should have been eliminated in the first round. But I lied. I imed I had ten years of experience.


    Later, during the cooking test, I was exposed and thrown out.


    But I needed that money so badly that I knelt at the gate, begging and pleading.


    Mrs. Williams happened to be returning from outside just then. After hearing my story, she made an exception and let me stay."


    A look of sincere gratitude appeared on Eloise''s face as she spoke.


    "She was such a kind person."


    Coleman couldn''t help but scoff.


    He said mockingly, "Kind? If she were truly kind, would she have abandoned her own children and left by herself?


    Israel and I were so young. She didn''t show the slightest hesitation or reluctance.


    She was a heartless woman!"


    Eloise looked at Coleman with aplex expression. "Mr. Coleman, I was by your mother''s side for so many years, and I''ve never met anyone more gentle or kind than her.


    She had her reasons for leaving back then.


    I can assure you, no one loved you two more than she did.


    Mr. Coleman, she is your mother. What mother doesn''t love her own children?"


    Coleman said coldly, "If she truly loved us, she wouldn''t have ignored us for all these years.


    Later, even when Ste came back, she refused to return, not even to see us once. Right up until she died, she never let us see her onest time. Even the original shares she left behind were only for Ste.


    You say she loved us? Is this what you call love?"


    Toward the end, Coleman''s emotions grew agitated.


    Bet


    Eloise sighed. "I don''t understand things like shares, but I saw with my own eyes how much yes how much your mother loved you and Mr. Israel. >


    She had her reasons for not taking you with her when she left."


    With that, Eloise struggled to hand Coleman arge bag she was carrying.


    "Before she left, your mother prepared many things for you and Mr. Israel with her own hands.


    There are scarves and gloves she knitted herself, toys she picked out for you, and some other gifts.


    She thought that after she left, I would be able to continue working for the Williams family.


    Who would have known..."


    A look of guilt crossed Eloise''s face.


    "Not long after she left, I was also driven out of the Williams family.


    You and Mr. Israel were still so little.


    I was afraid these things would be


    throw Heft them, so look


    everything she entrusted to me.


    I intended to find a chance to give them to you.


    But as an old woman, I had no way of getting close to you boys.


    Later, I managed to find out that she was in Neo-Vespera. By the time I found her,


    she had already passed away.


    I thought that you and Mr. Israel


    bet


    mighte to see her so every year on the anniversary of her death,