Every word pierced Gale's heart.

She still did not speak, just looked at Nicole quietly, with melancholy.

Gale was afraid that tears would fall uncontrollably when she opened his mouth.

She was even more afraid that she would say something that hurt Nicole when she was in a foul mood.

Gale kept telling herself that Nicole was not sober now and that she did not know that she was her mother.

'So, don't take these words to heart, let alone care about them!' she thought.

She had to think about