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"Nick!" Claudia said angrily. "Stop talking like that!"

She shook Nicholas, but he remained unmoved. Back when I first married Nicholas, I was still a girl who dreamt of love, imagining we would grow old together,

Occasionally, when we slept together, I would sneak into his arms. When my attempts to feign sleep were too obvious and failed, I would end up cuddling him and acting cute.

I would ask him, "Honey, who do you think will die first between the two of us?"

He would turn over and call me "boring". Nevertheless, I would cling to him firmly.

I would wrap my arms around his waist from behind and pout. "Given our age gap, it's more likely you'll go first. If you do, I won't live long after. I'll die with you. Otherwise, I would be very sad living in this world without you. Nicholas's gaze kept staying on me. I wondered if he wanted to hear the same answer again. But he probably didn't remember what he once said.

He replied, "If that day ever comes, it's just fate. There's no need to cling to it."

At that time, he always wore a string of rosary beads, making his words seem profound. I admired him, believing he had deep insight. Looking back, I realized that he didn't invest much emotion in me, so he didn't need to cling to anything I stared at him firmly and said, "No."

Nicholas slumped back onto the bed as if he was falling into an abyss. He closed his eyes in despair.

with sibling affection. "Nick, you still have me. I'll

anger. "Ariana, you don't need to come to the hospital anymore. Do you

interrupted her, not wanting her to

thermos than glance at

her foot

with their bickering, so I bluntly said, "There's no need to

He had doctors, a "mom"

furious. She charged

and intended to hit me, but I grabbed her arm and pulled her close, whispering three words

tell me to leave. As soon as I stepped out of the hospital, I leaned

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wall, feeling utterly drained.

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to keep the peace, to avoid a situation that couldn't be undone. But

some things, even if I didn't do them, someone else

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