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Chapter 50: The Little Things that Count

Author: Anney GW
last update publish date: 2026-01-17 13:45:12

[Alice's POV]

The consequences of agreeing to take care of David proved far more troublesome than I had imagined.

On the day he was discharged from the hospital, David insisted on returning to our home, not to the old family house. His reasons were grand. “Grandma is old, seeing me like this will worry her, and it won’t be convenient for you to take care of me there. It’s too far from everywhere, like Camilla’s preschool.”

I watched him sitting in his wheelchair, pushed by a hospital orderly, d
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