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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

dizziness overwhelmed her–vision blacked out as she

rushed over and caught Maureen

eyes reopened,

couldn’t believe Zoe was gone. Just yesterday she’d been fine,

Geoffrey stayed close

Seeing Maureen

immediately called out: “Mommy, how are you

stared blankly at

told Ethan: “You go out

“Why should I leave?

don’t you

Ethan protested stubbornly.

grabbed Ethan from behind, and

cause trouble right

His voice was ice–cold.

his lips, not

door behind him, returned to the

if you want. I won’t see it.

Maureen remained silent.

the bed and

how 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.

her tighter, pressing a kiss to her forehead–his awkward attempt

tears had run dry, yet she broke down once

for me, she wouldn’t have gone after Noelle, she wouldn’t

letter. Deborah delivered it,” Geoffrey

up at

opened the bedside drawer, and handed her

tore it

few sparse lines

gone. Don’t grieve–this is

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