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Chapter 9
“Please, just let me go.”
“If you leave, what happens to Lydia?”
“You only remember Lydia as your sister–what about me?”
He said nothing.
Desperate, I sank to my knees before him.
“I’ve never begged you before, but I’m asking you now–please, just let me go! Give me a chance to live.”
“A chance to live? What about our sister? Our father? Tell me, where are they?”
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“You only see the dead–father, sister, mother, Lydia. Am I not your family too?”
His eyes softened for a moment but quickly hardened again.
“You? No!”
No? No!
It felt like a thousand needles piercing my heart, unbearable pain.
He and Mom had never seen me as family.
The deaths of Dad and Lena had haunted me for
years.
Clutching my chest, I struggled to breathe.
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I finally understood that pain so intense it leaves you breathless isn’t just a literary metaphor.
When the heartache reaches its peak, it really does make it hard to breathe. This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org: ©.
Noel looked down at me with icy disdain.
“Stop pretending. Come back with me.”
Soon, I found myself calm again.
The last flicker of light in my life extinguished.
glanced at the bustling crowd around me, suddenly overwhelmed with a profound weariness of everything and of this world.
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Calmly, I said to Noel, “Alright, I’ll go back with you.”
He paused for a moment, then said nothing.
I stood up, mechanically putting one foot in front of the other, walking ahead of him.
As the train rushed past in front of me, I charged forward without hesitation.
There was no fear, only despair.