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Chapter 7

Author: sylvette
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-04 22:41:18

~Liv~

I didn’t feel the phone leave my hand.

I just heard the splash, far below the railing, like a coin dropped in a wishing well that never granted anything.

Ava’s ultrasound picture disappeared into black water.

Weeks gone . Grainy little bean. Caleb tagged in the comments with a string of heart emojis and “Can’t wait to marry my girls.”

The wedding was moved up. Of course it was. Because everything in Ava’s life accelerates while mine stalls out in the breakdown lane.

I laughed so hard my ribs hurt. Then I threw up over the side of the pier, mostly alcohol and self-loathing.

After that it was just legs carrying me from bar to bar, shots sliding down like punishment, music too loud to think. Someone kept buying me drinks because I was the sad girl crying. I let them. I let everyone. I wanted to disappear inside the noise.

At some point the world tilted sideways and I was back on the pier, shoes gone, dress soaked from falling in the shallows. The tide was out, exposing all
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