You Hit My Heart by Kylie Stanford

On Saturday Joyce stayed at home and spent the day with Stephanie. She could see that Stephanie's condition was getting worse and worse. She had lost more than ten pounds again. There was chest fluid in her lungs and she kept coughing all day long.

Jamie came every morning to give Stephanie nutritional fluids and the pain Killer.

Joyce also learned from Jamie how to give injections.

Because Stephanie now needed pain relief on a regular basis and she would have to be very careful with the injection.

She learned that she could help more or less. In the evenings, it was she who gave Grandma her shots.

Every time when she looked at Stephanie's increasingly pale face, Joyce also understood that her grandmother would not have much time with her now.

The bond that had been built over these days made them almost a real family, and she could understand why Luther cared so much about Stephanie.

work on hold so that she could spend more time with his

Late afternoon on Sunday.

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the living room couch, covered with a wool

the movement of Luther's return, she woke up, opened her eyes, glanced

asleep, and you can see her later.” She closed her eyes and

you something." Luther stepped forward and

you doing.” Joyce disgruntled and scratched her hair, apparently annoyed, "Where's your manner? How do you know if I'm fully clothed and you just

part of you have I not seen? Take it, it's for you." Luther's thin lips slightly hooked,

about that all day?" She

at her hand, the black wooden box he tossed

know it if you opened it?" Luther sat down on the other sofa and looked at her patiently. He had gone out on a special trip