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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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merely glanced at them before whispering: “Grandma’s asleep. Let’s take her

dizziness overwhelmed her–vision blacked

over and caught Maureen in

reopened, Maureen

yesterday she’d been

stayed close to

Seeing Maureen

Ethan immediately called out: “Mommy, how are

blankly at the ceiling without

told Ethan: “You go

“Why should I leave?

you get

Ethan protested stubbornly.

grabbed Ethan from behind, and dumped

trouble

His voice was ice–cold.

by his actions, Ethan pursed his lips, not daring

door behind him, returned to

want. I won’t see it. No

Maureen remained silent.

bed and

much time had passed, Maureen finally spoke: “Geoffrey,

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“Yeah.”

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“Zoe’s gone.”

Maureen elenched Geoffrey’s shirt.

tighter, pressing a kiss

run dry, yet she broke down

fault. If not for me, she wouldn’t have gone after Noelle,

left you a letter. Deborah delivered

looked up at

drawer, and handed her

tore it

few sparse lines

already gone. Don’t grieve–this

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