Replaced by His First Love
A single, heavy drop formed at the corner of my unblinking, gold-rimmed eye.
It wasn't a tear of saltwater.
It was a tear of pure, molten gold dust.
It slid down my rigid cheek, sizzling as it burned a thin, jagged line into the quartz of my own face.
Leo crawled toward me, ignoring the blistering heat radiating from my legs. He reached out, his small, trembling fingers hovering an inch from my glowing stone knee.
"Mommy?" he whispered, his eyes wide with a terrifying awe. "You're angry. You're so angry."
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