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PART 4 – The Truth Behind the Cruelty

PART 4 – The Truth Behind the Cruelty

That evening...

Madeline finally confessed everything.

For years...

Every time she looked at Luke...

She saw her late husband.

The same blond hair.

The same blue eyes.

The same laugh.

And the same disease that had taken him.

Instead of facing her grief...

She pushed Luke away.

She convinced herself that distance would hurt less than love.

"I thought..."

"If I never became close to him..."

"I wouldn't lose him too."

Brandon couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"So you broke a child's heart..."

"...because you were protecting your own?"

Madeline nodded through tears.

"I was wrong."

"I was a coward."

She looked toward Luke's hospital room.

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"He never stopped calling me Grandma..."

"Even when I didn't deserve it."

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