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Christmas was fast approaching and so were the coldest days in winter. Mrs Greenwood had just been informed about her pancreatic disease. It wasn’t mentioned how many days she had left to live but, her days weren’t promised either. The ride from Gayus BioSystems in London was one of the longest rides she had ever taken in her life. The first one was the ride out of Greenville on the day she left Fredrick Hughson at the doorstep of his grandmother. The second, well, the second wasn’t as long as the first, but it could count, she had intentionally forgotten another of her sons at daycare. She really was a bad mother… but who could blame her? Children weren’t part of her plans for the future and it had to remain so. The next few hours of the ride was a torture, she repeatedly relived those moments as though they were the only moments she made bad decisions, when in fact, bad decisions were her everyday life. Lovelyn Arnold, now married to a British man by the name David Greenwood,-

“Stay in the car..” Alex repeated for the umpteenth time.Fredrick strained his neck to take a look at the lady waiting at the entrance of the complex, she was an aged woman in her 50s. Her face was not very clear to him but he was relieved that it wasn’t Claire. As Gary and Alex stepped out of the car, his first thought went to Avery. He fumbled his pockets, looking for his phone.As if on cue, Avery had beaten him to it.He smiled softly as he pressed the answer button.“I’m safe, it is not Claire, I promise…” Fredrick exclaimed.He could hear her taking deep breaths of relief on the other side of the phone. “I am relieved…” Avery confessed.The conversation went quiet for a second, then he said,“Can we go out to dinner tonight? It’s been a while we ate out…”Avery beamed from ear to ear, smiling at the thought of stepping out with her husband once again with a protruding stomach but she concealed it.“I don’t know…” she pouted,“I don’t want to fight another woman over my own

“How can he tell from a memory thirty years ago?” Margaret said.“Fredrick took deep heavy breathes, inhaling and exhaling in futile attempts to calm himself. He had to be calm for his brother, and for the sanity of every body present.“Come…” he gestured to Adrian.“Yes Uncle Fredrick…” “Go get the envelope in Nei-Nei’s safe drawer. Do you know the combination?”“Yes Uncle.”Fredrick held Noah down, setting him right beside him.“Take a deep breath, Noah.” “I understand how you feel, but can you pull yourself together?”“What’s in the envelope?!” Noah asked.“It’s a picture of her…” Fredrick replied.“And you didn’t think to show it to me? What’s wrong with everybody?!”“Noah, watch your tone!” Margaret scolded.“Why? Because he’s not my brother? Is that what you’re going to say next?”The door banged shut and Adrian’s footsteps could be heard approaching in the distance.Soon, he stepped into the dining with an envelope in hand.“Is this it?” Before he could complete his sentence

The door banged shut and Margaret slumped into the sofa next to the wardrobe, crying bitterly at Alex’s words.“How did everything fall apart? How did I ruin it?!” Her sobs could be heard from the other room. Fredrick held Avery’s shuddering body in an embrace, patting her in the back.“I don’t think you should go…” Fredrick said.“I can’t help it…” Avery cried. Her voice was small and sad. “Margaret feels terrible…”“If you go, you’ll make her feel even worse…” Avery pulled away from him and their gazes locked, hers was that of confusion. Her eyebrows corked in a doubtful expression.“How is that? Can you talk to Alex? Margaret really didn’t mean that?”“And Alex is a man of his words. He doesn’t play around with words. She broke up with him in a moment when he needed her support, her encouragement…” “To him, that’s sequel to abandonment. Alex doesn’t hurt easily, but when he gets hurt, it takes more than just apologies to get it right.”“Margaret has lost him… she has. Going ove

Lovelyn’s eyes were widened in shock at the slight details of Fredrick’s life. She had been looking up his life on the internet, following tweets about him, nothing had prepared her for the moment where she was to become a grandmother.Her eyes softened affectionately as she glanced at Noah and observed his hands on his brother’s thighs.“Don’t leave me with her, please” Noah pleaded.“You two became really close…” Lovelyn smiled wryly.“Trauma bonded…” Noah snapped.Lovelyn took a deep breath, of course, she expected him to cuss at her. His father was hot headed like that.“Did your brother raise you?” “I have parents, and a sister” Noah replied.“I was adopted by good people. They found me in a nursery and carried me home.” Noah’s words froze in the cold silence of the room. He wiped a tear that had escaped his eye and cleared his throat, trying to regain composure.“I hear you have questions…” “Why did you do it?” Noah blurted.“For two consecutive times, why did you do it?” “W