The Heartbreak Prescription by Glazed Snow

My Dad Please Come 47

Chapter 47

He reminded her that the area was dangerous and urged her to leave quickly. The people chasing him were closing in, and she wouldn't make it out alive if she stayed.

But the girl didn't leave. Instead of running, she struggled to drag him with her, pulling him into a hidden cave.

"Big Brother, this place is safe. They won't find us here," she said.

He looked at the girl-so young, only a child. It was already into the winter months, but she was wearing just a thin, faded dress

that had been washed so many times it was nearly white. It seemed like she had been in this forest alone for a long time, her only

companion the tattered doll she clutched in her arms.

He was badly injured, his body icy-cold.

The girl reached out and hugged him. "Are you cold? If I hold you like this, you won't feel cold anymore."

He looked into her eyes, so clear and bright.

"Why are you here alone? Where's your home? Where are your parents?" he asked.

The girl was silent for a moment. “I have no home, no parents. No one wants me in this world."

I survive, I'll take

took off the crystal pendant around his

other for warmth. Their shared body heat kept them alive through

when he woke the next morning, the girl was gone.

comrades arrived, and he had no choice but to leave by

Stanley mumbled in his sleep, suddenly jolting

had been a dream. He had dreamed of

he had found her

that he and Jessica were

his side all these years, raising her

be spoiled and radiant.

knew she was his precious

next to him, he still

of her thin body, so determined as she dragged him

dreamed of her warmth,

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her sudden disappearance, waking

suddenly realized

down, he saw Wendy lying there, her head resting against his chest. The memories from the night before came flooding back. He remembered everything-how they had ended up lying

delicate back against him, and he had wrapped his arms around her

had spent the night like that, wrapped in each