Chapter 21
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On the living room, he seemed to ste Avery holding Sugar looking at ham tenderig
Her han Tell softly over her shoulders, her fare wearing the smile he knew so well
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Reed stood frozen, then smiled-smiling impl tears rulled down tus face
Avery up much. Didn’t we agree Next month for our anniversary, we’d take Sugar hiking?
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Reed reached and trembing hands, wanting to embrace her
But just as his hands were abom to touch her, Avery’s image instantly dissipated like must
The sofa was empty
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You are my whole world my reason for Eving
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Searching for these intangible moeniaries in the sea became the only sheraton keeping line abive
Baril their wedding anniversary, when Reed jumped into the once more
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exceptionally clean sunlight casting dappled shadows through the surface
But after a day of searching, he still found nothing
Just as he was about in surface the saw a golden object gleaming
The gold portran he had melted down with his own hands
In the portran vers nestled beside him her smile radiant while he looked completely contrac
He had yard it symbolized their unbreakable bond, as enduring as gold and stone
How could an object dat no longer existed appear here
Kerd’s long dead hear suddenly began to beat violently
The non-existent portrait had appeared
Dad that treat his Avery, might rein too?
The golden portrait wavered ulghely begining to sink slowly toward the deeper darker seabed
Reed like a madman used every ounce of strength to dive deeper chasing that sole light
Taygen was nearly depleted He reached out, finally grasping the corner of the portrai
The substanimal weight comenced ium this wasn’t a hallucination
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From the day Aven passed away, he had anticipated this outcome
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People always recur had they cherish only after they’ve lost it
Be unfortunately, for me ruistakes, there is never a chance for redemption
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At the finic didn’t believe it
Jesi, Daniel had never
mentioned an ex before
But then
I walked into our brand new apartment and saw their bodies angled on our bed
His voice still echoes in my head
Tauren Carter your boring as hell There’s zero spark between us
And yet after I walked away and left hun with the woman he dermed to love
He turned amund, pointed straight at ber, and snapped
Yes the ball mat Laren Larter is my wife!
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Don’t spiral bahr Damet doesn’t strike me as the can’t let go type
“He probably past played without thinking
But the truth”
I didn’t know a damn thing about Daniel’s past
He’d never shared it with me
That’s when I got a DM request that made my heart drop
The first words jumped right out of the screen: “Hey Daniel you okay?”
