His Greatest Gift

Tessa was stunned for a moment. 'So, his mother chose to end her life on his birthday?' she thought.

"Don't look at me with pity," he said in a low voice.

'Maybe I could use her sympathy to make her care about me more—that wouldn't be so bad either,' he thought to himself.

But at this moment, seeing sympathy in her eyes only deepened his sense of misery.

Even though she'd lost everyone in her fami