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  • Chapter 6

  • Cruel satisfaction flashed in Sara’s eyes.

  • “If I can’t have it, neither can you!”

  • A tsunami of despair and fury instantly engulfed me.

  • I lost all sense of reason.

  • Grabbing Sara by the hair, I shoved her toward the wall with every ounce of strength I had.

  • One blow, and blood began to seep from her forehead.

  • Sara screamed, “Help! Murder! Someone’s killing me!”

  • The hotel room door slammed

  • open.

  • Jackson stormed in, his gaze falling on Sara’s battered state. His face turned ashen.

  • He grabbed me and pressed me against the wall, his voice trembling with rage and disbelief:

  • “Zoey! Are you insane?!”

  • Behind him, Sara stood unsteadily, one hand clutching her bleeding forehead, the other shaking uncontrollably.

  • In a quivering voice, she murmured, “Darling, I’m… I’m so scared.”

  • I pushed Jackson away, dropping to my knees.

  • My hands trembled as I tried to pick up the shattered camera.

  • The fragments were cold, sharp, and unyielding as I struggled to piece them back together. But no matter how I tried, they wouldn’t fit.

  • Glass shards sliced into my fingertips, and blood dripped onto the floor, but I didn’t care.

  • my hands roughly, his grip firm and his voice barely

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  • broken! You can’t fix

  • tears streaming down my face without

  • gritted teeth, he shouted, “It’s just a damn camera! You can

  • really worth losing your

  • felt like a blade stabbing

  • a broken

  • my mother left me,

  • was nothing

  • head, hatred surging uncontrollably.

  • the face, smearing blood from my fingers

  • “Jackson, get out!

  • out of my

  • face was frozen in shock.

  • finger and hurled it into the

  • packed everything I owned and returned to

  • to visit my mother.

  • of her gravestone

  • countless times, but

  • end, I blocked

  • I felt overwhelmed by shame.

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  • mother could see what I

  • always wanted me to live proudly, courageously, and strongly–to explore the vast and beautiful world.

  • had wasted three years on

  • third

  • made my usual visit to the cemetery.

  • saw something unexpected

  • of bird–of–paradise

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