Ultimate Little Red Riding Hood

Chapter 703: Ultimate Little Red Riding Hood

Medical Center.

Rachel, who had been tearfully preparing to leave, was persuaded by Adam outside the building.

Knowing how strict the doctrine was, she did not hold much hope that one of Adam's friends could persuade Gilly's parents.

This scene of family reunion made Rachel decide to let go completely.

"Wait a little longer."

Adam persuaded her, "Isn't it worth waiting another hour if it means you can stay with Gilly through her final moments?"

"It is."

Rachel silently nodded. "I just don't want to stay in there and affect their father-daughter reunion."

Emmm.

The biggest obstacle here was not both of Gilly's parents, but Gilly's proud and old-fashioned father.

Gilly's mother had already taken the initiative to break doctrine once.

Of course, speaking to an unseen and unmentionable expelled person was fundamentally incomparable to allowing Rachel to return to the community, stay with Gilly through her final days, and then attend Gilly's baptism and Mennonite funeral.

Even Gilly's mother, whose maternal love knew no bounds, probably could not do that.

It was not that she was unwilling.

It was that she could not!

More than an hour later.

Adam welcomed the arriving Juno and her inseparable companion Karen outside the building.

"You two..."

Adam did not know whether to laugh or cry as he looked at Juno and Karen's bright red hoodies.

"Alright, let's get down to business first."

Juno smiled. "I can't wait to meet this Rachel you described as being somewhat like me."

"Not that much alike."

Adam shook his head. "Only thirty percent alike. She doesn't have your confidence or your optimistic calm."

"That's because she doesn't have a wise good friend like I do."

Juno teased, "If she'd had a friend like that in her teenage years, perhaps