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Chapter 15: The Choice

Author: Rachelle Wylde
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-05 22:18:36

Ava

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When my mum was diagnosed with cancer, she’d only told me, “Huh? Look how two days can change everything.”

She was trying to joke for my sake, of course, but there was no denying the truth of the statement. Just two days before, we’d all been in the yard: me, Mum, and Dad, laughing while Dad grilled some steaks. It was also the day she gave me the butterfly necklace.

“It didn’t cost much,” she shrugged when I told her it was too expensive, her short red hair blowing in the breeze. She didn’t realize it would be priceless to me.

Dad took a “business trip” that night, kissing Mum on the cheek as she smiled, and then coming over to kiss me the same way, saying, “Whatever happens, Ava, you deserve the whole world.”

I thought it was just cute, and without realizing it was a goodbye, I stretched up to hug him.

It was the last hug I ever gave him.

Mum fainted the next day when he’d stopped receiving her calls, and what we thought was the result of heartbreak turned o
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