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.

on the verge of breaking

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goner." His voice was hoarse as if he was

most importantly,

Lucas had not even given her a

himself, "Why didn't I believe her

even her who saved us. How could she possibly rescue all of us by herself?" Winslet furrowed her brows. "What if the current pushed us to the shore? The water was so swift then, and the rain

shiver ran down Winslet's

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,

felt a surge of anxiety. She went to

lying on the hospital bed when

of

he mistook

stiffened, her

Maddie," she stammered, her voice tense with

out to touch Benjamin, but

fixed? Did the video capture what happened last

death, so why are you suddenly so

with you." Benjamin lowered his gaze. "I'm just... worried that Maddie

spine, and a sense of fear washed

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

as if questioning his own actions. "Why did we have to

despised her," she complained in her

"It's all my

that icily,

clutched her head, feeling

had wished. "So, why did everything turn even worse?" she wondered. "Why did they have to reminisce about a dead person? Why did they

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was

team gave Henry a

got into their car, but right then, they were seven instead of the eight

headed straight to

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the Moore family and the Larson family,

gathered at the

the afternoon. Why haven't Benjamin and the Larson family shown

it off? After