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Author: Vanessa Pens
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Rhys

It couldn’t be! He couldn’t die.

I had been on my way home when I had received the call that he was at the hospital. It didn’t make any sense. I had seen him the previous night and he looked just fine – his breathing was steady…

Regardless I raced down to the hospital, a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. I wasn’t sure who I was more worried about: Jude Madigan or myself, the way I raced was even crazier.

When I got there and I saw Vincent looking down at me, my heart leapt into my throat, but then I felt foolish for being so nervous, it could only have been that he was asleep or something.

“Where is he?” I asked the men in front of me, Vincent and two of grandfather's drivers.

“He fell…” Vincent began but I looked past him, that wasn't what I wanted to hear.

“But where is he?” My voice was quiet but I knew it must sound hysterical. “I need to see him. Please.”

One of the drivers pointed to a room and when I went in, Jude Madigan, my grandfather laid still, unmoving. His
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