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The Daughter They Left Behind Is Done Waiting. Chapter 10
Emma’s POVThe next day, the filtration system went online at the first temporary shelter.After finishing the field tests, I stepped outside the tent and found Mia waiting nearby.She was still beautiful, but the glow she had worn when everyone revolved around her was gone.I later heard that once I left, the family lost the person who had always cleaned up after them.Mia refused to live in a dorm, but she wouldn’t find an apartment herself. She fought with Luke over every small thing and expected the entire family to drop whatever they were doing to comfort her. The first time Noah refused to run an errand for her, she accused them all of not loving her anymore.They finally realized that her sweet, easygoing nature had depended on everyone giving her exactly what she wanted.None of that mattered to me now.“Emma.”Mia stepped into my path, and her eyes quickly filled with tears.I had watched that expression work for years. Whenever she looked even slightly hurt, everyone rushed t
The Daughter They Left Behind Is Done Waiting. Chapter 9
Emma’s POVThree years later, I returned to Seattle with my research team.Wildfires had contaminated the drinking water in parts of the city. The local government planned to test our improved portable filtration system at several temporary shelters, and I was in charge of the field data and project presentation.As the plane landed, I looked out at the familiar skyline and felt none of the turmoil I had expected.The past three years had been good to me.I had completed most of my undergraduate coursework and become one of the youngest project leads in the lab. The device I had once built from secondhand parts had gone through dozens of redesigns and was now providing clean drinking water to communities in Africa.I was no longer the girl who slept in a storage room and measured every word before she spoke.Before returning, I had wondered whether being here would reopen old wounds.But when our car passed the coffee shop where I had worked to buy my white windbreaker, all I remembere
The Daughter They Left Behind Is Done Waiting. Chapter 8
Emma’s POVI fastened Grandma’s bracelet around my wrist again.The cool forget-me-not charm brushed my skin, bringing back the words she had spoken before she died.“Emma, you’re smart and capable. One day, you need to live for yourself.”I finally was.Luke waited outside my college for an entire week.Every day, he emailed me. He began with the day we first met and worked his way through our childhood, memory by memory. He said he was sorry. He said Mia’s tears had clouded his judgment. He even offered to give up his place at Seattle University and move to England for me.I didn’t answer a single message.The first day, the sight of him outside the window still distracted me.By the third, I could leave through another door without feeling anything at all.Once, I had wanted nothing more than for him to choose me without hesitation. But devotion that arrived this late felt like nothing more than an intrusion.He didn’t understand that I hadn’t left to force anyone to choose between
The Daughter They Left Behind Is Done Waiting. Chapter 7
Luke’s POVThe house sank into a gloom unlike anything they had known before.Emma’s mother kept wandering to the empty storage room. Her father stopped insisting that Emma was only throwing a tantrum, and Noah never mentioned the apartment again.Luke had no time to wait for them to understand what they had done.The moment the bracelet arrived from the hotel, he booked a flight to London.Emma’s mother told him to convince her daughter to come home. Noah gave him a bank card and repeatedly warned that England was expensive and Emma would eventually need their help.Luke said nothing.He closed his hand around the tiny forget-me-not charm and told himself that if he could just see Emma, he could still make things right.He would apologize. He would place the bracelet back in her hands and tell her that she was the only person he had ever truly loved.He would even stay in England if that was what it took for her to trust him again.Luke didn’t sleep during the ten-hour flight.He kept
The Daughter They Left Behind Is Done Waiting. Chapter 6
Luke’s POVNoah gave a dismissive snort.“How much money could she possibly have? We’re the ones paying the rent. Once she calms down, she’ll call us.”Emma’s mother nodded.“She only wants us to panic. Don’t reward this behavior, or she’ll get worse.”Luke was the only one who didn’t agree.He stayed up all night checking every place Emma might have gone: the coffee shop, the school, the library she sometimes visited, even the cemetery where her grandmother was buried.There was no sign of her anywhere.The next morning, he went to the school and asked Ms. Stouder where Emma was.“I’m sorry, but I can’t disclose a student’s private information.”Ms. Stouder blocked the entrance to her office, her expression cool.“If Emma wanted you to know, she would have told you herself.”Luke tightened his grip on his car keys.“I just need to know she’s safe.”“She is.”Ms. Stouder studied him for several seconds, a cutting edge entering her voice.“And she’s finally somewhere people appreciate h
The Daughter They Left Behind Is Done Waiting. Chapter 5
Luke’s POVIt was six in the evening when Luke returned from Hawaii with Mia and the rest of her family.Noah came through the door first, dragging two large suitcases behind him.“Finally. I’m exhausted.”He dropped the bags in the entryway and called upstairs.“Emma, come help us. Mia’s thirsty, so bring her a glass of water too.”The house remained silent.Emma’s mother frowned.“Wasn’t she supposed to look at apartments today? Why hasn’t she answered any of my messages?”Mia sank onto the couch and spoke in a small voice. “Do you think she’s still mad at me? This is all my fault. I lost Grandma’s bracelet.”Emma’s father patted her shoulder.“Don’t worry about it. She’s always had a mind of her own. She’ll come back once she’s done sulking.”Luke set the shopping bag on the coffee table.Inside was a pearl necklace he had bought in Hawaii. He had assumed that if he gave it to Emma and took her out to dinner, she would forgive him like she always did.She had always been so easy to
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