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…”

to eat. I brought

you say you wanted something healthier?”

thing I could think

am I going to do

“Love me!”

I already do…”

then, love

“Marcus!”

Do you remember the day we saw each other again? When Serenity was two years

it’s still

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Chapter 0171

I would never let you

girl is

[Flashback, Hesperia]

10:00 p.m., she was finally arriving home. Her roommate, Camille, met her at the door, her

burning up with fever. I tried

time to charge it. Have you given her anything for the

it’s not going down! Mary, I think we need to take her

her wallet and opened it. All she had left was 100 dollars, and payday wasn’t until Saturday. It was Wednesday.

said, handing over a bundle of cash. “We have to get Serene to the doctor. I know it’s not much, but it’ll help.

at the money–3,000 dollars. It would be enough to pay for a