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Chapter 68

Author: Rue Spears
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AIDEN

My mind was clouded with what the doctor had said as we drove to the hospital, I stared at Selena at intervals and she seemed lost in thought, unable to say a word and I really couldn't blame her.

For a moment I placed myself in her shoes and imagined my sister Astrid was dead and turned out pregnant, I couldn't process the thought.

Just looking at her face, I could see the pain she was passing through, her whole world crumbling before her eyes. Her sister was died, her mother was dying from cancer and her father's mistress was threatening them to stay away.

It was all my fault and I wished I could just take it all away with a swipe of my hand, I wish I could take all the pains and agony she was feeling away, I wish I could make her happy, not for a second or a moment but for eternity.

She was hurting and it seemed like it wasn't going to stop, I had seen how drained she was when they revealed her dead sister's body to her, she seemed unfazed, unable to cry anymore but now w
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