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Erika found out something happened to me at the hospital and nearly flew back home to find me.
When she got to the airport, she saw me sitting there, zoning out.
She hurried over, checked me thoroughly, and then gave me a tearful hug. “They didn’t do anything to you, right?”
I patted her head. “Don’t worry. They didn’t.”
She cried and said, “I thought those two lunatics wouldn’t let you go unless they skinned you.
“They actually let you go just like that?”
“Yeah.”
I thought for a moment. “Maybe they wanted to do some good deeds.”
After that, I never saw the Hanson brothers again.
Erika and I lived together, laughing every day, happily forgetting the world.
Sometimes news came from back home–after Shania’s family went bankrupt, she tried to get close to some rich heir who once liked her, hoping to return to a life of luxury.
But all her dirty tricks got exposed, and her so–called “prank trophies” were made public.
Then someone doxed her. The mother of the high school girl who jumped
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off the building found Shania, said nothing, and splashed sulfuric acid on her face.
The Hanson family wasn’t doing well either. The brothers fought constantly, and the company was a mess.
I heard Samuel never stopped looking for me.
But I also heard someone had tampered with his car.
He got into a crash. He ended up paralyzed from the waist down.
Three years passed.
I ran into Jimmy.
At the time, I was walking with my daughter, who had just turned three.
He saw the little girl in a dress beside me, and his eyes lit up. “Michelle, is she…”
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I knew what he wanted to ask.
I cut him off. “She’s not yours. I got married.”
He went silent for a long time.
In the end, he forced out a few awkward words. “Right. That’s good.”
He walked away, looking miserable.
I let out a breath.
Actually, I never remarried.
That day at the abortion hospital with Erika, after everything, I couldn’t go through with it.
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Years passed, and my daughter grew more and more beautiful.
She began to look more and more like Jimmy.
He wasn’t stupid. He obviously knew the child was his.
All these years, he had been sending money to my card through an anonymous account.
But he never dared come see me.
7 a.m., I was curled up in bed, yawning.
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My daughter, wearing her backpack, patted me. “Mom, I’m going to school.”
I kissed her. “Sweetheart, don’t forget to bring me two hot dogs after school. Extra spicy.”
She giggled. “Got it, foodie Mom.”
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The day Jimmy let Michelle go, he had actually wanted to say something.
At first, he really was following Shania’s idea, coming just to mess with her.
But Michelle was too obedient. When she cried, she was like a cat- silent.
When she cried, he realized his heart ached, thumping painfully.
Before he knew it, he had started falling for her.
At first, it was romantic.
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But slowly, he began to fear that Shania would find out the truth.
He was drowning in his own lies, trying desperately to be good to her.
He wanted to live a good life with her.
But he didn’t know whether Michelle liked Samuel or him.
He even thought about getting her pregnant, using the child to secure his place.
That was his only chance.
On the wedding day, he wanted her to know the truth, but he was also scared.
He had it all planned.
When the truth came out, he’d be gentle.
He’d tell everyone he loved her deeply, truly.
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The day he caught Michelle going for an abortion, Samuel went mad, choking him. “Who said you could touch her?”
He’d never seen him like that.
Jimmy thought, “Samuel must love her too.”
The two of them really had it coming.
He wanted to tell Michelle he had lied a lot.
But the one truth was that he truly loved her.
But when the words reached his lips, he couldn’t say them.
“Forget it,” he thought.
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This love, which belonged in the shadows, was better left unsaid.
He didn’t need to disgust her more.
She should go down a wide road, toward the light–a path where he didn’t belong.
A road where he didn’t belong.
The end.
