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Chapter 4

Word Count: 962    |    Released on: 04/06/2025

rescent lights of a hospi

came from just outside

to anything in that sedative. The doctor who presc

aced with perf

an's voice, immediate, unwavering in his protection o

Even now, after I'd nearly died, his first ins

ompromise w

in, his expressio

quite a scare," he said

n," I rasped, my throat still sore. "Ana

re a minor inconvenience. "Ava is very upset. She feels

otional comfort over my

like that

ed me in t

etched into a

ls, no

old, hard fact. His cal

ot for me, but because it was the

grave together. A so

with him, looking suitabl

a bitter tas

d my mother's words to me years ago, "Find a man w

felt like the furthest thing from safet

solemn event with his ongo

laced flowers on Mom's

from the cemet

ground instability, we need to relocate several graves, including your mother's. We

Mom's final restin

ond, Ethan took the

tative. "My wife is obviously too upset to deal w

nodded. "Understood. We'll be

was, for a moment,

ng, a display of his power,

re already at Mom's gra

y and receive the urn containing her ashes befo

cally weak from t

mall, polished wooden

. "Let me help you, Eleanor. You

mpt to "help" w

ed my ar

ipped from

h with a sickening c

ered in the wind, settling on the gras

shock,

crashed

perhaps malice, had l

truction was the u

tic sound tore

nging at Ava, my grief momentarily replaced b

es wide, instantly adopti

was only trying to help!" she

immediate, her false accusations

biased judgment, and I knew, with a si

pair d

ace was t

is fingers digging in

ying to be kind!" he roared, his v

her, instant

bbed, the fight draining out of m

d you have no right to

attered the last vestiges of a

e stumbling

soft, solicitous. "Are you alri

victim, nodded tearfull

they turned back

she deserves to give you a

t, he held my arms

s voice chillingly

ly gone, stepped forward,

me, hard, ac

l from Ethan, the physical pain he enabled, h

complete. His cruelty, a

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