Chapter: 1299

Riley's eyes widened. She asked, "Mommy, you know him?"

“Yes, I've met him before." Clara nodded.

Riley frowned. Why was she the only one who didn't know Joey?

Pouting, she reached out to hold Clara's arm.

Clara didn't know whether to laugh or not. She lovingly touched her daughter's face and said, "I remember that you told me that you didn't want to be a big sister?"

Riley looked at Clara's slightly bulging belly.

"That was in the past,

Mommy. But didn't you tell me that people change? Now I think it'll be nice to be a big sister."

And in a soft voice, Riley added, “It would be wonderful if he is as beautiful as Joey."

Even if it was almost a whisper, everyone heard her.

"You naughty girl!" Clara tapped her forehead with her index finger while Riley playfully stuck out her tongue at her mother.

Clara then turned her head at Rachel.

"I've asked a colleague at the orthopedics department to secure an examination for Joey. She would have already queued it at the clinic. You can go in there."

“Thank you," said Rachel graciously.

"No worries! It's really not too much of a bother." Clara looked at

Roger, who was taking out what her mother had asked him to give her.

After thanking Roger, Clara went back to work. She had received a call from her department.

Roger and Rachel stood outside the examination room.

Rachel, in particular, was keeping an eye on the situation in the room.

"Rachel." Roger's tone was tentative, even sounding nervous.

“Roger, I have something to tell you," Rachel interrupted him.

One after the other, Rachel and Roger traversed the length of the hospital corridor until they reached its very end.

As they stood still in front of the window, Roger patiently waited for Rachel to say something.

“If everything goes well, the cast around Joey's arm will be removed next week," Rachel said as she turned to look at Roger.

“I know that you've been relentlessly worried about Joey these past couple of days. I'll keep you company on the day of his appointment to have his cast removed. We can have dinner together after that,"