?Chapter 1346:


    Startled, Christina instinctively reached up to wipe them away, asking with quiet concern, “Aunt Amaya, why are you crying?”


    “It’s nothing. I’m just… overwhelmed,” Amaya murmured, her voice thick with emotion.


    She couldn’t help herself—she pulled Christina into a tight hug.


    “Our little girl has grown up and knows how to care for others. That’s beautiful. Your adoptive parents—what kind of people are they? How could they treat you like that?”


    If Christina hadn’t had that fierce will to survive, she might not be here today.


    The thought of Christina’s adoptive parents’ cruelty made Amaya’s hands clench; she wanted to storm off to Kitaso and tear them apart herself.


    “Don’t worry, Bonnie, I’ll make them pay. No one in that family will get away,” Amaya promised, rubbing Christina’s back softly.


    Garry watched Amaya break down again and felt his heart ache as if it might crack from the weight of her tears.


    “I looked into them quietly,” Garry said in a low voice. “They’re not in Kitaso anymore—they sold everything and moved to Teglen.”


    Amaya froze; her tears stopped as a cold fury washed over her, and her whole body trembled with anger.


    “Those heartless wretches! They escaped? No—I’m not letting them go. Wherever they hide, I’ll send someone after them.”


    Amaya vowed she would never forgive the cruelty they had shown Christina.


    “Yes! We must make them pay for what they did to Bonnie!” Florrie cried, striking her cane hard on the floor.


    If those vile people were standing here, she would have charged them with that cane without a second thought.


    “Florrie, rx. I’ve already hired people in Teglen to dig up everything on them. They tormented Bonnie—we can’t let this slide,” Garry said gently, trying to soothe her.


    Christina was the first child in their families, the one they had waited for and cherished.


    ?????? ?????? ???????? ?????????? at ??????????ν??????．??????


    Who could have foreseen what would happen next…


    Ever since Christina vanished, both households had been torn apart.


    Florrie nearly wept herself sick, her health failing and sending her to the hospital again and again.


    Beth fainted repeatedly and ended up hospitalized; her mind frayed, and she became a shadow of her old self.


    Amaya, too, cried so often over the years that her eyes were constantly sore and swollen.


    When Garry saw Amaya like that, he worried himself sleepless, afraid her sobs would ruin her health.


    .


    .


    .