Crests and troughs

"Hatred is the only thing I can afford to see in your eyes for me.

For I was surviving on necessity and your love for me was an unaffordable luxury."

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Her gloved palms were placed on the golden retriever's chest.

The heartbeat was there but a few beats slower.

Without wasting a second she had injected the 10-year-old with the required medicine.

The dog owner was looking at her with desperate pleading eyes and Elle knew how she felt.

Tears were leaking down the dog's eyes and she could see how much it was suffering.

Patting its head gently she just hoped it could survive this.

Jake stood back with another dose of medicine in his hand and a nod from her side made him inject it.

"Will....my Sammy be fine?"

The owner asked Elle with her eyes still fixed on her 10-year-old co