After uttering those words, Dorothy closed her eyes, her body starting to tremble ever so slightly as if bracing for the agony that was imminent.

But the pain didn't come.

Instead, what arrived was him propping himself up and withdrawing from her. Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FindNøvᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"I don't want you to compensate me in this way," he said, dropping the words like a stone before turning and walking into the bathroom.

Dorothy remained lying on the bed, her hair splayed out around her like strands of seaweed.

With his weight lifted, the air rushed back into her lungs in greedy gulps, and a bitter smile flickered across her lips.

Was this compensation? Not really.

feel

meant pain, it

from the bathroom started

in bed, didn't bother with the lights, and just sat on the edge, waiting

his waist, she

this once, no questions, okay, Everett?" "About your mom?"

the one to give in, and he was

I thought something happened to you." He never willingly cut contact with her, and she worried—was it an infection, had his condition worsened, was he in a hospital somewhere, or

possibilities had flitted through Dorothy's mind, but

happen.” "Well, if you don't take care of yourself, who

again?" "Didn't Kenneth flaunt in front of you that he could go to the cemetery, and I couldn't? That's just showing off." Everett was too smart not to

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