is she cough

of genuine panic slip

to react. I went limp,

e shouted and the urgent bla

just the

atch as I died bit by bi

the smell o

d my vision, etched

d forward, gripping my hand t

awake! You sca

were cold

sound, perfectly playing the part of some

and several n

r doctor, Vincent aske

ir, rest assured, I'm famili

ducting a series of checks. H

ting the cancer cells in her body have begun to invade her organs uncontrol

rself. Optimistically speaking... p

cript were arranged by Aunt Hila

uld this performa

ayed violently up

gainst the wall to

of this was real f

urses left, Vincent sa

ts, wiped cold sweat from my brow,

ng, his proposal to me, and the

such tendernes

there with my ey

ld my next move p

nt home to make me soup, I con

uipment in his study. The most disc

ace, the place he was most likely

erst

leep. When I occasionally woke, I appeared dazed, unresponsive to anyt

d I just stared bac

e more and more that I was t

g, a message came f

of his study desk lamp. Signal r

y heart pounded

ap wa

ited for the f

ssed my forehead, said he had company emai

ckup phone and a pair of tiny wirel

I connected to the enc

uiet, the sound of keyboar

, a phone ringtone shatt

ncent answ

us voice came through the earbud

inx is failing? Is it tr

unadulterated exc

he hemorrhaged the night before last. Th

lly getting out of our Jenkins family! I've always despised her, that sickly look all the time, so unlucky! Vincent, listen to me. You

gh, his words plac

ng the bone marrow, and there won't be any mistakes. I've reassured Ca

e good day? And now this deadly disease... it's like she came to collect a debt! She can't have children, but Cathryn is carrying our grandson. Vincent, remember, the family li

phrase, they pierced my ears a

his mother, I was just a "barre

lue was re

alue, my life coul

se, endured countless pains, believi

whole family were just

only didn't defend me once, but either

ow. I'll h

ressed the r

t it took me a lon

mous onslaught, another encrypted em

a series of high-definiti

t's private office safe via technical means

on the docu

t W

ath st

pened the photos one by o

all our joint marital property, including his company shares, al

f everything was Cathryn and any

d distribution plans, my name, Brenna, his

pletely, thoro

e bone was the date a

ears

eal glared painful

rst round of chemotherapy, from that very moment, at my most painful, hel

from the very beginning-was nothing but a grand deception, a carefully orchestrated scheme to keep

ul prop in the show he wa

irrefutable

s and morality straight into the territory of deliberat

one screen, I could no longer hold ba

dness, nor w

sea of being utterly fooled, calcu

ly, truly, never