My Repentant Brothers by Grace Edith

Chapter 47

Henry clenched his fists, his veins standing out and his temples pulsating.

"Impossible! Absolutely, positively impossible!" Henry's eyes were filled with resistance, his voice deep and ominous.

Outside, the sunlight still shone brightly, but Madeline was gone

Henry used to hate Madeline so much.

"This time, I saw clearly. It was her."

Henry did not make a mistake this time.

He wanted to tell Madeline, to let her know that he had not made a mistake this time.

Henry's face was pale.

Henry had thought that if he survived, he would make it up to Madeline.

Madeline had saved him time and time again.

Henry was not heartless.

But,

The nurse said, "You should try not to get too agitated. They're still searching, and we'll have news today."

"Searching?" Henry's vision almost darkened. He glared at the nurse with anger. "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Maddie saved me. If something happened to her, I wouldn't be okay," he mused.

He continued, "We were together at the time."

By the end, his voice was trembling.

"Could a search be for a person?" he wondered. "Searches were only for bodies."

The nurse hesitated. "The rescue team speculates that she saved all seven of you alone. After all, she's just a little girl. She might have exhausted herself in the end. Every summer, there are so many news stories like this." "Shut up! Get out!" Henry ground his teeth, bending over deeply There was a buzzing sound in his ears, a taste of blood coating his throat, and his heart felt like a knife was stabbing it.

The nurse shook her head, understanding his feelings.

After they had left, Lucas sat outside in a daze, looking toward the direction of the reservoir.

Many search team members were busy in the reservoir, the sound of pumps roaring like thunder.

It sounded grating.

"Lucas, don't be so devastated. Maddie wouldn't want to see you like this." Winslet's expression was somber as she squatted in front of Lucas. "Last night was just an accident. Who would wish for something like this to happen?" "That's enough." Lucas suppressed his emotions, his fingers clutching his head in frustration.

sat there, on the verge

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was a goner." His voice was hoarse as if he

most importantly,

not even given her a

it deeply and thought to himself, "Why didn't I

pushed us to the shore? The water was so swift then, and the rain was pouring heavily. She's not a deity." Winslet's tone turned more skeptical. "Winnie, I'm

ran

why did her death suddenly make everyone in the family seem so off?" Winslet wondered. She stood up, staring at Lucas, who was languishing. "Lucas has always been the least kind to Madeline, Why is Lucas looking all torn up like that? Did he care

surge of anxiety. She went to find

lying on the hospital bed

a trace of

a daze, he mistook Winslet for

stiffened, her face

not Maddie," she stammered, her voice tense with unease. "I'm

reached out to touch Benjamin, but he

card fixed? Did the video capture what

cause Maddie's death, so why are you suddenly

not being distant with you." Benjamin lowered his gaze. "I'm just... worried that Maddie wouldn't be pleased if she saw. She... might still be

down Winslet's spine, and

confirmed yet. I'm upset, too, and I believe she's always

heavily. "Why..." he mumbled to himself as if questioning his own actions. "Why did we have to go

exploding. "Maddie, Maddie... When she was alive, everyone despised her," she complained in her

"It's all my

go to the reservoir." After saying that icily, Winslet lost control of her emotions and stormed out of

clutched her

wondered. "Why did they have to reminisce about a dead person? Why did they have to feel

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was still no sign of

and rescue team gave Henry a

they were seven instead

to the Moore

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be the engagement cancellation banquet of the Moore family and the Larson family, and they

already gathered at

already five in the afternoon. Why haven't Benjamin and the Larson family

changed their mind about calling it off? After all, if they cancel, it would tarnish