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

in there. Her abductor had left with them. What if

right?!

her, kneeling beside woman had changed her mind and brought them back to the warehouse? Were her kids really gone? After

hand around her shoulder and pulled her into

enough. They're in a better place. Ruby

should've been their mother. She

she whimpered. "They didn't deserve someone as

lightly on the

shoulders, until after a long time, when the

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away from the

70%

are you here?" Her voice still quivered with tears rolling

her hand

returned, he found her dead in the room." She dropped her hand from Sylvie's hair, a frown crawling into her face at the painful

been very special to him." When she lifted her gaze to Sylvie again, it was filled with more warmth. "They had a child together, and he made me promise him that I'd do all I can

didn't like where this was

in a married man's

woman was your mother," Ruby

feel shocked.

across from Ruby in a mini

stared blankly at the untouched glass of freshly squeezed juice Ruby had ordered for her. Staring

wooden table between she and Sylvie as though the

a long, dramatic play of events, but in the end, my parents won, and Miller and Floria got separated.

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

years later, they crossed paths again and well-" Ruby shrugged, her lips twitching. "-got involved in a forbidden affair. Floria became pregnant with you while married to Eldon, but it was for Miller. They both kept it a secret until ten years later, Eldon found out. He was hurt and filed for

dead. Her death is still a mystery with no suspects found. But it ruined

somber. "I'd never seen him so... wounded. Devasted. Only then did I realize how much he truly 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 and watch you walk with your friends. He watched you for a long

couldn't meet you because... he felt you were better off with Eldon and your sisters. He didn't want to

shakily. "Three years after Floria's death,

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eyes finally met Ruby's, shock reflecting

He was dead!?

He fell

that Eldon decided to kick you out, I must not hesitate to take you away from him and bring you to the family where you truly belong. He's always wished you'd be a part of us, Sylvie."