Chapter 0131

in this world,” suzy sobbed, her you said you'd take care of me in

“I've already lost three brothers. You're the last one I have words coming out in broken gasps. “You promised me their place. How can you go back on that now?"

Through her tears, she kept talling, barely malding sense. "The company's project is about to launch soon. That's your family's legacy-do you really want to leave that all to me? You know how exhausted I'll be, and you've always hated to see me work too hard..."

As she spoke, she pulled out her silver needles, desperate to keep him alive. She'd saved so

TIL before, pulling them back from the brink. She was convinced that if she kept

going, Claude would make it too.

But with each attempt, he grew colder, his life slipping further away.

Finally, he took his last breath, and Suzy felt her heart shatter. "Claude... please..."

and over, but his eyes never opened again. Even as she

waves of grief choked her, almost as if she couldn't

he'd become family in every way that counted. Staring at his lifeless body, memories swept her back to the summer when they

and that day had happened to be her brother's birthday. He'd invited the whole class over for a party, including Claude, who was the new kid

easy target, and

at

she'd flung her slice of cake

three years old, Suzy's

legs would carry her. The sound of footsteps chasing her only made her sprint harder, using every ounce of her energy, but soon she

she'd pelted with cake, she instinctively swung her tiny fist as she turned-only for it to be caught by

her, a calm, soft

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