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Chapter 12

Author: Spring Flower
When I returned to Emerald Creek, I found Emmett crouched at my doorstep, hugging his knees, his gaze vacant.

Only when I appeared did a faint glimmer of life return to his eyes.

“You're finally back,” he whispered.

I said nothing.

Instead, I gently reached for his hand and slowly pushed up his sleeve.

The fabric hid the twisted, jagged scars on his arms.

Emmett instinctively tried to pull his arm back, but my heart had already plummeted.

A wave of fury surged through me.

I raised my hand and struck him across the face.

“Are you insane?”

His head snapped slightly to the side from the impact, but he didn’t retaliate.

Instead, he caught my hand and pressed it softly against his cheek.

“I thought you were dead,” he said.

His cheek flushed with the fresh sting of my slap, but he held onto my hand tightly, caressing it with aching tenderness.

“Claire,” he murmured, “I failed you in the past. But from now on, please, never leave me again.”

I stood before him in silence,
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