My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

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After hanging up with her daughter, Valerie felt a tightness in her chest. It was as though she could sense something was wrong, but she couldn’t put her finger on it. At first, she thought it was because Serenity was traveling to Spain, but after seeing her on the video call, perfectly happy and safe, she knew that wasn’t it. As for her little one, she had just spoken to him during breakfast, and everything was fine. So why couldn’t she shake this feeling?

To distract herself, Valerie began unpacking her and Marcus’s clothes, but even that didn’t help. The strange unease lingered.

She was lost in thought when Marcus entered the bedroom and saw her.

“My love, is everything okay?”

“Oh, yes,” Valerie replied, snapping out of her reverie. “I just finished a call with Serenity. She’s with Regina now,

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“That’s great! How’s my girl?”

she’s fine–she looked happy. She said she’ll call again once they get to Regina’s house. Regina was driving, and Serenity didn’t want to distract her.”

“Relax, my love. I can see you’re worried. Serenity’s a grown woman now. She knows how to take care of herself. We’ve always taught her to be independent and make her own decisions. She’s smart–you need to learn to let her fly from the nest.‘

“I know, it’s just that-”

“I get it. It’s not easy for you. But think about this: when you came here, you were so young, and your father hadn’t taught you the things we’ve taught Serenity. What happened to you back then wasn’t your fault. You were innocent, and there were people who took advantage of that.”

“Marcus…”

time to eat. I brought pizza!”

Didn’t you say you wanted

it’s not exactly unhealthy. Out of everything I saw, the only thing I could think about

am I going to do

“Love me!”

ha, ha. I already

love

“Marcus!”

each other again? When Serenity was two

to, but yes, it’s still fresh

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would never let you two

is all grown

[Flashback, Hesperia]

her shift. It was a late one, and by 10:00 p.m., she was finally

one’s burning up with fever. I tried

phone battery died, and I didn’t have time to charge it. Have you given

but it’s not going down! Mary, I think we need

it. All she had left was 100 dollars, and payday wasn’t

of cash. “We have to get Serene to the doctor. I know it’s not

money–3,000 dollars. It would be enough