Chapter 153 Unexpected Guests (Two)

• Another thing that weighed greatly on his sick, weak, and tired mind was Sebastian's odd behavior. At first, Mr. James had wracked his brain very hard to guess what might be the cause of his nephew's sudden and painful change, but for the life of him, he could not figure it hard. And then, that day at the hospital when he had gone to visit poor Jessica, Sebastian had accused him of something so horrible ... something that he would never have done even when he was still living a bad life those days peddling drugs. He guessed that it was the shock of the fact that Sebastian could think such an evil thing of him, and was even punishing him for it, that had caused the heart attack. His greatest fear was him dying and Sebastian still thinking that he had done what he had accused him of. His hands were clean, and he was innocent, heaven knew. Maybe he should not have come here in the first place.
• Mr. James struggled into a sitting position on his bed and then got out of it, after which he paced gingerly to go sit on the balcony of his sick room. The joy on his wife's face each time she saw that he had managed to move from the bed to sit on his favorite chair on the balcony made his pain worth it. He would keep being strong for her until the very end, he decided. Somehow, he knew that although he looked a bit stronger, the end was far nearer than any of them believed. He tried to shake off the feeling of déjà vu that suddenly came upon him and refused to leave.
• A few minutes later, the door opened and one of the maids who had come down with them to this new house entered it, coming straight to the balcony where he was sitting and enjoying the morning breeze to smile at him.