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,

grabbed the prosthetic and bolted out the

had promised never to abandon ham She had to let him know she had never forgotten

she

night before vanished from her mind. She needed

prosthetic righty, Shirley got her car

replayed vividly

heels. Despite his own physical limitation, Samuel

complained, only pressing forward with his back slightly hunched

like she was

home, she had carefully treated his wounds, kissing the scans on his log

allowed anyone to belittle hum. Anyone who dared to limiliate him would face her wrath tenfold. He was the man she

him. Never leave him. No matter how much pain et despair life brought, she would shield him from it all As long as he

make

come back, she would forgive

her thoughts, she was

to Newlandia. They were

watched as the housekeepers loaded his suitcase into the car, sophila chung