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“Let’s go home. I don’t want to stay… here.”

“Okay, okay, going home.”

Maureen reached out and picked her up.

Zoe was so thin, almost nothing but bones. Maureen didn’t have much strength, but could easily lift her.

She carried Zoe, walking along the long corridor, talking as she went, afraid Zoe might suddenly leave.

“We’re going home now, for Christmas Holidays. We’ll bake Christmas cookies together, and change into new clothes. Ethan and Jacob will give you kneel–and–beg.”

Zoe listened as Maureen’s voice grew softer, and her vision grew blurrier.

Maureen felt her breathing was extremely weak and couldn’t help calling out: “Mom.

Mom, you mustn’t leave, please? I’m begging you. You promised to always stay with me.”

In her heart, she’d long regarded Zoe as her biological mother, even closer than her biological mother.

Hearing herself called “Mom,” Zoe mustered her last strength to answer: “Okay.”

As the word faded, the hand resting on her chest dropped limply.

Maureen realized for the first time how endlessly long hospital corridors were. Standing midway, staring at the distant light, her throat burned raw.

“Mom, mom…”

But the woman in her arms could no longer hear these pleas.

When Geoffrey’s group arrived, Justin saw Maureen alone, cradling Zoe’s lifeless body.

“Mommy.”

Seeing this, Ethan understood what happened, his eyes reddening instantly.

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before whispering: “Grandma’s asleep. Let’s take her home

dizziness overwhelmed her–vision blacked out as

the thud. Geoffrey rushed over

her eyes reopened, Maureen

gone. Just yesterday she’d been fine, promising to

stayed close to

Seeing Maureen

called

blankly at the ceiling without

“You

“Why should I leave?

you

Ethan protested stubbornly.

grabbed Ethan from behind,

cause trouble

His voice was ice–cold.

by his actions, Ethan pursed his lips, not daring to say

door behind him, returned to the room,

see it.

Maureen remained silent.

the bed and pulled

had passed, Maureen finally spoke: “Geoffrey, Christmas Holidays

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“Zoe’s gone.”

Maureen elenched Geoffrey’s shirt.

tighter, pressing a kiss to her forehead–his

thought her tears had run dry, yet she broke down once more,

me, she wouldn’t

left you a letter.

looked up at him.

rose, opened the bedside drawer,

it

sparse

gone. Don’t grieve–this

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