The bustling activity in the morning suddenly came to a halt. Valerie, looking like an agitated cat, burst out."Does it hurt?" Kieran asked."What do you think?" Valerie shot back angrily.Last night, Kieran noticed traces of blood on the bedsheet after their activities. He glanced at Valerie ben
In the living room, Kieran reached out to Valerie, holding her hand. She shook it off, but he persisted, grasping it once more. She got up and went to the backyard. Not long after, Kieran followed her. "Valerie."Valerie hastened her pace, not letting him keep up.Smiling, Kieran quickened his foot
Once at the hospital, Valerie got a wheelchair to push Melissa around.They went to the wound care department and found Julian, who was lying in bed with a dazed look on his face."Oh, God. Are you paralyzed too, Melissa?" Julian asked, from one beat-up patient to another.Julian turned to look at t
Valerie looked at the tombstone. It was pitch black outside and dark inside.Normally, she would be afraid of places like this. But with her husband by her side, she feared nothing at all.There was a small patch of grass in front of the tomb. Kieran dug a hole in it and then put the test results in
Valerie hugged her husband's arm and bleated, "I'll just learn if I don't know how to. They'll be my lab rats."Melissa and Bennett left.As Kieran led his wife away, she stopped him. "Let me buy some food for Dad."He held her hand and walked with her into the school courtyard toward the shop selli
Valerie looked at her attentive husband. She could understand why he was so eager. He'd just found his long-lost sister, after all."Oh, I always call him my brother at home. Maybe he thought I wanted to have the water."Melissa looked at her friend, who was behaving oddly. Her eyes seemed to be cha
Until now, Bennett couldn't get that image of his sister out of his mind.His mother had cried until she passed out. His father could barely stand up straight.He leaned against the wall, looking at his sister, who had a white cloth covering her face.It was like she was asleep. She looked like she
Everything seemed to go back to how it was before.Only the three of them knew that her real child was gone.Bennett was afraid of losing his sister. The threat of losing her forever was a bitter pill to swallow.Bennett, however, would never in a million years think that the child they rescued was