Chapter 150

Joseph, considering that Melissa could not bear to see the scalded skin peeling off from Alvina, took the initiative to hand Alvina into Melissa's arms. He knelt down on one knee, holding firmly onto Alvina's little leg, watching intently as the doctor's tweezers approached the scalded skin of Alvina. Just as the tweezers were about to touch Alvina's little leg, Alvina struggled a bit in Melissa's arms. "Ah! Hold the child still" The doctor reiterated. Melissa held back her tears and nodded, leaning Alvina's face against her chest. The doctor cleaned the tweezers with a cotton ball soaked in iodine, then gently disinfected the area around the burn on Alvina's little leg. Giving a reassuring glance, Melissa took a deep breath, turned her head to one side, and looked at the snowy white walls of the hospital, trying hard to calm herself down. "Ah, Mama, it hurts!" The doctor lifted a bit of necrotic skin from the edge of Alvina's burn, Alvina screamed out in heart-wrenching pain, always b