A deal with the devil

Chapter 21

It was the right choice. As long as her family was safe, Shirley could enchur amil

Shirley stayed awake all night.

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At the first light of down the pot dressed and went downstairs. –

Jenny brought her a bed of spaghetti but lingered at her side, clearly hesitant to speak.

Shirley ate all the bowl before setting down hes fork. “Il you have something to say, just say it. I’ll be heading but soon.” Jenny hesitated before rephring. “Yesterday, we received a package from abroad. We weren’t sure what to do with I‘

Shirley didn’t think much of it. “Bring it here.”

Moments later, she stared at the package, sitting frozen as the blood drained from her face.

Innide was a prosthetic limb she had specially ordered for Samuel the previous month. Looking at ir, Shirley felt the barriers she had built around her heart begin to crumble. Her composure shattered, piece by pinor,

prosthetic and bolted

to

she was terrified Showed that when he finally did, he’d find

from her mind. She needed to Samurk, One

got her car

time together replayed vividly in

wearing high heels. Despite his own physical limitation, Samuel had carried

his back slightly hunched to ensure she would’t fall,

she had felt like she was

had carefully treated his wounds, kissing the scans on his

to belittle hum. Anyone who dared to limiliate him would face her wrath tenfold. He was the man she had vowed to protect with

how much pain et despair life brought, she would shield him

make mistakes,

back, she would

she was already at the gates of Moose

Sophia to Newlandia. They were leaving early to catch

watched as the housekeepers loaded his suitcase into the car, sophila chung to Samuel’s arm as they climbed