MARRIAGE PACT
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I plucked the paper from her shaking fingers, mine shaking too as I unrolled it. The words were a real kick in the guts.
Michael Hartmann died from complications stemming from his injuries.
My knees buckled, and I grabbed onto the doorframe to stay upright. The world seemed to lean one way, and my brain would not wrap itself around cruel finality of words such as that.
"No," I whispered, shaking my head. "It isn't true."
"I am so sorry," Madam Tess said, her voice soft and the words filtering from another world.
I slammed the door shut, having roughened breathing, and slid to the floor.
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