Chapter 171

Emily's pov: I didn't see Lucas throughout the whole afternoon. I was beset with anxiety. His words before he'd run out kept replaying in my mind, stuck in a loop. In fact, I could say a lot from my standpoint. After all, I wasn't really given a choice on most of the things, and most of the time, my hands were tied. But no matter what the specific reasons were, it wouldn't change the fact that I had brought harm to my child. He had never done anything wrong, then or now, but he always had to bear the brunt of the adult's fallout. For him, a child, this was as cruel to him as could be. Even when it was 9 p.m., he still had not returned home. I went out to find him. I came to the mountain he often spent his time on and searched the place, but he was nowhere to be found. Just as I was about to go back, I saw Owen holding Lucas's hand, coming down the mountain. They talked and laughed, and the air around th