Chapter 21
It was the right choice. As long as her family was safe, Shirley could enchur amil
Shirley stayed awake all night.
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At the first light of down the pot dressed and went downstairs. –
Jenny brought her a bed of spaghetti but lingered at her side, clearly hesitant to speak.
Shirley ate all the bowl before setting down hes fork. “Il you have something to say, just say it. I’ll be heading but soon.” Jenny hesitated before rephring. “Yesterday, we received a package from abroad. We weren’t sure what to do with I‘
Shirley didn’t think much of it. “Bring it here.”
Moments later, she stared at the package, sitting frozen as the blood drained from her face.
Innide was a prosthetic limb she had specially ordered for Samuel the previous month. Looking at ir, Shirley felt the barriers she had built around her heart begin to crumble. Her composure shattered, piece by pinor,
Without another thought, she grabbed the prosthetic and bolted out the doo
At that moment, nothing else muttered. She needed to see Samuel She had promised never to abandon ham She had to let him know she had never forgotten that promise.
Everyone said Samuel had lost his way but would eventually return. But she was terrified Showed that when he finally did, he’d find her gone,
Everything that had happened the night before vanished from her mind. She needed to Samurk, One last time,
Clutching the prosthetic righty, Shirley got her car and sped off.
Memories of their time together replayed vividly in her mind
Not long ago, she had twisted her and while wearing high heels. Despite his own physical limitation, Samuel had carried her on his back the entire way with his stump bleeding from the
He never complained, only pressing forward with his back slightly hunched to ensure she would’t fall,
At that moment, she had felt like she was his entire world.
When they got home, she had carefully treated his wounds, kissing the scans on his log
Samuel had always beenber pride. She never allowed anyone to belittle hum. Anyone who dared to limiliate him would face her wrath tenfold. He was the man she had vowed to protect with
e had sworn to herself the would never betray him. Never leave him. No matter how much pain et despair life brought, she would shield him from it all As long as he turned back, she would always be there for him.
After all, people would make mistakes, wouldn’t they?
only he would come back, she would forgive him.
By the time Shirley snapped out of her thoughts, she was already at the gates of Moose MANOR
That day, Samuel was taking Sophia to Newlandia. They were leaving early to catch their flight.
thuley watched as the housekeepers loaded his suitcase into the car, sophila chung to Samuel’s arm as they climbed in together.
The sight of Sophia ignited a wave of jealousy so intense that it threatened to consume Shitley,
That day, Samuel had told her that the woman he had always loved was Sophila.
ben she finally left de manor, Shirley’s mind was Mark, the huda’i even
able to muster a single accusation or complaint.
The last thing she had said to him was to ask why he had run away from theit engagement. Now, she had more questi
in the six years they’d spent together, lud heøver, I
(, even for a moment, truly cared for her?
