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0038. Still Here At Dawn

Penulis: FlyingDove
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-09 22:17:44

ALICE’S POV

Caleb walked out of the clinic on his own two feet.

His color had come back. His markers had dropped in the night. Mara was crying — not the desperate kind from a week ago, but quiet now, relieved, a mother who'd been given back her son. She took both my hands in hers.

"Thank you. Thank you for saving my boy."

"Keep him on the follow-up plan," I said. "Regular checkups for the next six months. If anything changes — anything — you bring him back immediately."

"I will. I promise."

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Lilys
So what? Four years of ignorance and distance from him and last was how he heartlessly ditched them to deal the problem themselves for another woman and her child and that made it all ok after just few weeks or months of redemption? That easy?
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Lilys
So it was matter of time she forgave and accept him back.. What else?
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