~DESMOND~ I tugged at my necktie, letting out the exasperated air I'd been keeping inside ever since she appeared on that rooftop. That crazy lady. I just saved her life, how dare she try to take it?Funny how I'd encouraged her, knowing fully well what awaited me if I'd let her jump.For the next several years at least, my son would hate me forever. I wiped my face, shaking my head at the irony of the situation.Was that really Melissa?“Dad, what took you so long?” Caleb whined when I got inside the car. “Did you sneak away to see Mum secretly?”Mum?What Mum?That girl, although she shared a deep resemblance with her, would never be Melissa.My wife died in a car accident two years ago. I'd been there, watching, helpless, and hopeful she would survive.No amount of money spent could save her. She was gone moments before the paramedics arrived.Caleb was just three years old.Such devastating news would, in no doubt, traumatize a little boy.I’d lied to him that his mother was o
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