Chapter 11

Ken’s tears fell freely as he opened his trembling hand. There lay the gold ring.

“This was my mother’s. It means everything to me. And you’re the most important person in my life, so I want you to

have it.”

He could still see Calista’s shy smile at those words.

But now she was gone.

Ken slammed his fists into the mud, his anguished roar echoing across the empty landscape. But Calista would never

return.

The next day, he drove back home in a daze. One look at his son’s face told Uncle Johnson everything he needed to know. They stared at each other for a long moment before Uncle Johnson spoke. “Remember to complete the transfer paperwork.”

hoarse voice stopped him. “Dad-” His

joining the satellite research base.”

course,” Uncle Johnson said firmly. “She wants to continue her parents‘ work. I support that.”

did you hide it from

I gave you

backward. The list had been in his hands. He just hadn’t

rushed to the study and grabbed the list, his heart stopping when

only looked sooner…

quietly. “Perhaps you two

the signs he’d missed came flooding back: the satellite research books, the discarded letters, her growing indifference, the

Ken had been too confident. He’d believed eight years of memory meant she would never truly

much he hurt her.

realization tore at his

heard movement in Calista’s room. His

to her door, only to hear Viola’s voice inside. “Get rid of all this stuff. I don’t want to see it!”

Brown, hesitated. “But these are Calista’s

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