Nine months too late: After divorce by Baby Charlene

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Ruby's eyes turned even more pitiful. "I'm sorry...."

"You shouldn't be cause they're not dead!" Her voice was near a shout for the first time. "All we have to do is find this woman, and we'll find my kids." She scoffed. "They can't be dead. I know it. She wouldn't bring someone over to assist with the delivery only to leave them behind to burn with me." "I don't know, Sylvie. Perhaps, she changed her mind and returned the kids, not wanting them to be the weak link that could be traced to her."

"No!" Sylvie yelled now. "It's not possible. It can't be!"

She bursted into tears,

, the ache in her heart having more reasons to return.

It couldn't be true. She couldn't just lose her kids after everything. They couldn't be dead.

let her cry until the tears had subsided a little. "I could show you where we buried them.

Ruby let her cry unti Some hours later, Sylvie and Ruby were at the graveyard. Her legs wobbled as the woman led her through the different tombstones until they got to two tombstones bearing the names: Little Fairy and Fairy Prince.

They hadn't even been named. Of course, how could they have been named when she was unconscious?

Sylvie dropped

her

knees, in-between the two graves. Her hand shivered as she reached out to touch the names. Was it really her kids? Were they truly dead? cheeks.

Unrestricted tears flooded her

"I'm so sorry, Sylvie," Ruby spoke from behind. "When you're ready, you can name them, then we have their names changed."

Sylvie continued crying, her shoulders slumped.

"I promise you, I'll help in the best way I can to find the woman who did this. I won't rest, Sylvie, until she pays for her crimes, and I don't even mean legally." Her eyes darkened. "When I do find her, the law will be too merciful for her." a long time, Sylvie remained there, crying her eyes out.

ī

For

She

wanted

to believe lieve

what if

there. Her abductor had

right?!

woman had changed her mind and brought them back to the warehouse? Were her

ta hand around her shoulder and pulled her into a

on, darling. That's enough. They're in a better

should've been their mother. She

wrong for them, she whimpered. "They didn't deserve someone as weak as

now!" Ruby struck her lightly on the back. "You're not weak,

crying on her shoulders, until after a long time, when the pain allowed her some sense of

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Her voice still quivered with tears rolling down her cheeks. "You said you've been looking for me.

sighed, lifting her hand to stroke

him. He had stepped out to get and when he returned, he found her dead in the room." She dropped her hand from Sylvie's hair,

him for years because this woman had been very special to him." When she lifted her gaze to Sylvie again, it was filled with more warmth. "They

reeled. She didn't like where

in a married

was your mother," Ruby

should feel shocked. Confused.

Ruby in

Ruby had ordered for her. Staring at the thick reddish liquid in the glass, all Sylvie could see was

brother Miller - and your mother - Floria - were lovers from highschool." Ruby began the narration, her eyes staring down at the wooden table between she and Sylvie as though the whole scene was replaying right in front of her.

my parents won, and Miller and Floria

father's name. But none of the emotions she felt mirrored on her face. They stayed

became pregnant with you while married to Eldon, but it was for Miller. They both kept it a secret until ten years

dead. Her death

loved Floria." A rueful smile touched her lips as she looked up at Sylvie, although Sylvie's empty eyes were staring blankly at the table. "You didn't know it, but he was always checking up on you. Back then, he'd hang around your school

meet you because... he felt you were better off

shakily. "Three years after Floria's

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finally met

He was dead!?

He fell

"Ruby continued. "Hours before his death, he forced me to make a promise. He wanted me to always look after you and ensure you were well taken care of. He said if there was ever a day that Eldon decided to kick you out, I must not