Before long, they reached Weldon's ward.

It was very quiet inside. Weldon was lying on the bed with his eyes shut. Because of his illness, his face looked haggard and gaunt.

Seated on the chair nearby was a middle-aged man who looked like a lawyer.

His head was lowered and he seemed to be writing something on his notebook.

When Weldon heard the sound of someone entering, he opened his eyes and looked up. At the sight of Melissa, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Finally, you've come to see me."

But Melissa didn't go up to him. Instead, she stood where she was and said in a cold tone, with her eyes fixed on him, "If there is anything you want to say, just say it now."

Weldon was quite upset to see how cold she was.

"You still don't want to forgive me, right?" he asked.

But he'd hardly finished saying this when he fell into a coughing fit and collapsed on the bed, his entire body shaking Like a fallen leaf.

It never crossed Melissa's mind that Weldon would end up Like this one day.

Perhaps Thomas was right. Weldon didn't seem to have much time left.

After recovering from the coughing fit, Weldon stared at the incandescent lamp overhead and murmured, "I've been diagnosed with stomach cancer. Unfortunately, it's terminal and beyond cure. Melissa, I had a dream in which I met your mother again. She was as beautiful as when I first met her. To be honest, even till today, I'm yet to see a woman that's as beautiful as she is. Her eyes looked so bright when she looked at me! Please can you tell me if she's still willing to give me a chance to atone for my sins?"

"She has already forgotten about you," Melissa told him pointedly.

Weldon fell into another coughing fit when he heard this. This time, it was so bad that he held his chest with his withered hand and gasped for air.

Thomas quickly rushed over to try to help him sit up.

But Weldon refused.

When the coughing ended, he was left panting and even the sound of his voice had changed as he said to her, "I also dreamt of you and you were so little. You looked so cute with your chubby face. It's unfortunate that I never got a chance to see you when you were a little girl, my dear Melissa."

Melissa's eyes nearly became moist with tears when he said this.

She quickly went over to the window and asked with her back to him and Thomas, “What's the point of saying all these now?"

Weldon tried to sit up so he could see her face.