Feeling confused, Nicole turned towards Nina instead.

Nina glanced at Evan and answered exactly the way he told her to. “What Maya said was right, Mommy. Daddy was never poisoned, nor did he leave us with a note or anything. You fainted after coughing up some blood, so we sent you to the hospital, that’s all.”

Nicole recalled that she coughed up blood after reading Evan’s letter.

“That only happened because I read your daddy’s letter.”

Maya kept quiet.

Daddy lied about being poisoned to teach Mommy a lesson and bring us closer as a family, but he’s afraid that she would get mad about it. That’s why he told us to act like it was all a dream!

Nina smiled at Nicole and said, “You coughed up blood because your body was still weak from therapy, Mommy! It had nothing to do with Daddy!”

Is that so?

couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off about it and took

remember the contents of that letter as well as the pain I felt when I read it… It feels too real to be a dream… Ugh, I can’t even tell what’s real and what

looked at Evan and asked in a very serious tone, “Evan… Assuming you were to

Evan

to hear… Well, I won’t leave

I will!” Evan said with

be together in sickness and in health,

minute detail. If she had a craving

how honest and dependent she was

barriers they had between them were now gone, and they

returned

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