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I Made a Deal With the Devil Chapter 33
In the cemetery, before the headstone carved "Wife of Julian Ashford," all was clean, not a single fallen leaf. Someone had been keeping it swept all these years.Julian carried the sunflowers over, slowly crouched, and laid the flowers gently before the stone. He took the journal, filled cover to cover, from inside his coat, and together with the pen engraved "Nora," left at the stone years ago and later taken back into his keeping, set them at the foot of the headstone."Eleanor, I've come to see you."His voice was old and gentle."The places you wanted to go, I've walked them all for you. It's all written in this book. Take your time reading it. It was beautiful, truly, just like you said. And I set up a foundation for you, helped so many children. Sunny kept them company for a good few years too. I think you'd be happy."The sun sank in the west, and the golden afterglow spilled over the headstone and over his head of white hair.He leaned against the stone and sat down, closed hi
I Made a Deal With the Devil Chapter 32
The years went by, one after another.The journal was finally written to its last page. Those places she'd never gotten to, every one now bore the line he'd written for her. "Came here for you."Julian had grown old too. His hair had whitened, his back stooped a little. Sunny had passed quietly of old age years before, on a winter's day, beside the sunflowers in the reading room. The children had held a small farewell for it.The foundation had grown lush and far-reaching. His own name gradually faded from it, while the name Eleanor came to be remembered by more and more people.That year, he stopped his wandering and returned to the city he had been away from for so many years.He didn't go first to the house long left empty. He went first to the flower shop, the way he had on every anniversary he remembered, and chose a large bunch of sunflowers, blooming just right.Holding that bunch of sunflowers, step by step, he walked toward the cemetery on the city's edge.
I Made a Deal With the Devil Chapter 31
He took Sunny and the journal, filling fuller and fuller, and went on.He went to see the northern lights in the north, the seas of flowers in the south, every place she'd written "want to go there someday." At every one he photographed the scenery for her. He had long known she wouldn't be in the photos, and he took them anyway.The blank pages in the journal grew fewer and fewer. Those regrets of hers, the "never mind, going alone is just the same," he filled them in whole, page by page, gently.Vivienne messaged often. The foundation's reading rooms were multiplying, the children helped growing in number. And Sunny, getting on in years, had been sent to live at the first reading room, lying by the sunflowers on the windowsill every day, keeping the children company as they read and basked in the sun.Julian looked at the messages, and as he read, his eyes grew wet.He lifted his head toward a foreign sky and said softly, "Eleanor, do you see? Everything you wanted to do, wanted to s
I Made a Deal With the Devil Chapter 30
Julian set out alone. He told no one where he was going, taking only the travel journal and Sunny.Following the list she had written and put off and put off and never managed, he went station by station.The first stop was the lighthouse she had written about on the journal's very first page. He returned to that stretch of sea, sat on the shore a whole day, watched the water and the clouds, then opened the journal and, in the blank space on that page, added a line stroke by stroke. "Came here for you. The water is calm, just like you said. It can carry a person very far."The second stop was the Acadia peak she'd written about wanting to see. He stood at the summit and watched the sunrise. The third was the autumn leaves she'd wanted to see. He went to the Camden hills, the slopes red with leaves. The first autumn after her death, the leaves had finally turned vivid red.At every place, he added a line on the journal's matching page. The blanks she had never gotten to fill, he filled
I Made a Deal With the Devil Chapter 29
Julian received the recent photo of Sunny, his fingertip moving over the screen again and again. He thought of the day Sunny went missing, when she had called in tears begging him to help find it, and all he'd said was "are you done."He drove home. The car had barely stopped when a furry shape darted out the door and circled it twice. He pushed the door open, and an old orange cat immediately rubbed up against him, butting at his leg, knocking its head into his palm again and again.He lifted it up and called out "Sunny," his voice hoarse. In a daze he thought of Eleanor years ago, holding this cat in the sun on the balcony, smiling as she said, "Julian, when we have a child someday, let's have Sunny grow up right alongside it, okay?"He'd agreed offhand at the time. But now the child was gone, and she was gone, and only this cat was left.He settled Sunny back into its old room and dug out the little ball she'd bought it years ago. But Sunny carried the ball to the spot on the balcon
I Made a Deal With the Devil Chapter 28
The day the Eleanor Foundation's first project was completed, Julian went to the site himself.A small village reading room. He held the supply list and checked the count of picture books page by page. On the windowsill of the reading room sat a neat row of sunflower seedlings. He stood at the window watching a group of children crowd around the newly arrived books, chattering, and a long-absent bit of warmth rose in his eyes.A little girl in pigtails, paint smudged on her face, ran up holding a drawing. "Sir, look, I drew the sea!"On the paper, little fish swam in blue waves, and a woman in a white dress held a child by the hand. Julian crouched down and brushed his fingertip lightly over the woman in the picture."If you were still here, you'd probably look just like this."He folded the drawing carefully and asked the little girl, "Can you give this drawing to me?"The little girl nodded hard.As the sun set and the children dispersed, he looked at the emptied reading room and sai
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