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Chapter 10
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The Star That Lit the Way Chapter 10
The award ceremony drained my last reserves.I clung to life until my purpose was fulfilled, then my body surrendered.Luna hovered by my hospital bed, her tears spilling over. “Daddy… is this how you've been living all these years?”The medical reports were grim. My body was riddled with illnesses, many of them beyond cure.More and more people came to see me. They expressed their gratitude and praised my life's work, but I was tired, so tired that even lifting a hand to touch Luna’s cheek felt impossible.“Daddy…”This time, Luna seemed to read my thoughts. She leaned in close, her sobs shaking her small frame.“Daddy, please don’t go. I’m sorry… for everything. That day at the kindergarten, I didn’t mean to push you, I didn’t mean to act like I didn’t love you. I was a silly little girl… Please don’t leave me.“And Mommy… She knows she was wrong. For years now, she hasn’t been able to sleep through the night without medication. You finally came back. Please… don’t leav
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Many people came to see me off. Some were my students, others were parents of my students. A few had even risen to leadership positions. I shook hands with each one, my eyes welling with tears. I felt honored to have guided wave after wave of students over thirty years. This place was no longer a symbol of poverty.Some left the mountains while others returned. It was thanks to them that the village transformed completely over three decades.“Daddy…”When I reached the last child, my heart skipped a beat. I had never taught this student, but I had raised her.“Luna, it’s you.”The words caught in my throat as tears threatened to drown me. Luna stood before me, grown now, with a child of her own. Every night in her dreams, she cursed her youth, wishing she had understood better back then.“Hello, Sweetheart.”“Daddy, do you remember Mommy?” As she spoke, she pulled someone to her side.The question felt strange. I turned to the woman next to Luna. Amber had aged,
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After Amber and Luna left, Mom finally opened the door. Her eyes were swollen from crying. Dad, too, sat silently, puffing on one cigarette after another.If they had felt even a trace of guilt when they first learned I had left, by now it had faded. What remained was a quiet resolve.Just as I couldn’t bear to blame Luna, they couldn’t bring themselves to blame me either— such is the nature of a parent's love.Meanwhile, back in the city, Amber had gone straight to Randy.No matter how many times she was turned away, she returned the next day, standing at the door like clockwork. Her persistence eventually forced Randy to meet with her.“I need to know where Dante has gone, Randy. Luna needs her father. And I… I need him too. I have a right to know where he is.”Randy studied her. She was unkempt, desperate, and almost unrecognizable.He sighed heavily.“Amber, you should have already received the divorce papers. “Dante left instructions for that. It’s true that you
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“Why would I know that?” Amber asked, baffled by the question. Mom quickly masked her expression.“Amber, I’ve known from the time you married Dante that you've looked down on him. You believed he had no future. But now that you’re here, let’s speak plainly.“No matter what happens between you two or whether you remarry, Luna will always have a place here. “As for Dante, since he’s the one who brought up divorce, we respect his decision and we hope you will, too.”Mom’s gentle gaze suddenly sharpened.“I don’t care why you’ve come today. But if you’re here to shame Dante, then I have nothing to offer you. What you do need to know is that he’s gone to do what he’s meant to do.”Seeing that Mom wouldn’t budge, Amber’s temper flared. Abandoning any pretense of politeness, she knocked over the dishes in front of her.“Dante and I are still married, Mom. What do you mean you ‘have nothing to offer’? And divorce requires two people, doesn’t it? I never agreed to it.“If he wants
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“What the hell is going on?”For the first time, Amber found herself completely shut out. Fuming, she dialed my number again.Once.Twice.Ten times.Each attempt met the same robotic response: “The number you have dialed is unavailable…”“What’s wrong, Amber?”Jason frowned at her uncharacteristic loss of composure.“I’m going back. You take Luna to school,” she replied sharply.Then Amber turned on her heel and ran, her fury pressing every step. When she flung the front door open, it bounced back from the impact.“Dante! What insane game are you playing?”Her voice echoed through the empty house. Suddenly, Amber’s steps felt unbearably heavy.Her steps slowed as she approached my room. The door creaked open to reveal its emptiness.“How… how can this be?”Her knees buckled, and she collapsed to the floor.The remnants of the past seemed to mock her from every corner, “Why are you yelling? There’s no one here anymore.”“Amber!”Jason rushed in and saw her sitting in
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I couldn’t find the words to express my guilt. My Mom simply responded with quiet hums.At the end of the call, neither of us said anything more. We could only hear each other’s quiet sobbing until the line finally disconnected.Bracing against the cold wind, I walked home alone. By the time I arrived, Luna had already fallen asleep, but Jason hadn’t left yet. Over the years, it had become common for him to spend the night at our house.Silently, I headed toward the guest room. As I passed the bathroom, I heard Jason’s voice.“My mother brought up marriage again today, Amber.”His words were blunt, and Amber remained silent for a long time.I fled the spot as if on instinct, afraid of hearing the answer, afraid of confirming what I already knew.To Amber, our marriage was simply one of convenience.Yet it still hurt me deeply. I had begged for our relationship.As I packed my things, I left behind all traces of the years I had spent with Amber. There wasn’t much,
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