He opened his phone and saw it was a message from Sheila.

"Timothy... I feel so sad. You're hurt like this, and I can't even be with you to take care of you."

The middle of the night, when the world is quiet, is always the best time to talk about feelings.

Sheila wasn't about to let the moment slip away.

Her foster parents' attitude tonight had said it all-they didn't want her getting too close to Timothy.

But she was determined to fight for what she wanted.

Timothy stared at the message, letting it sit there for a long while before finally replying.

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me."

Just a handful of words, and to Sheila, they felt cold and mechanical.

A little too distant.

She couldn't accept it.

He never used to be like this.

Becoming the adopted daughter of the Howard family had once seemed like a stroke of luck.

But as she grew older, it began to feel more like a shackle.

Sheila was about to send another message when Timothy's reply came through.

I'm going

ache

to be

that evening, she'd barely managed to exchange a few words of concern before

what was

way to Aetherion. She couldn't imagine any

that Jessica was

joining Mr.

That must be it.

God.

dare

kept going down that road, she would lose her

paid Jessica any attention-what changed all of a

find out where Jessica

Timothy's feelings for Jessica had shifted, Sheila knew her own presence weighed heavily on Jessica's

running from

Sheila still had a

as Jessica was bent on

family. As

be

eto see

him.

left, things

biological parents were already urging her

needed to wait a little longer. Once Jessica divorced Timothy and she returned to her

reached out to

Howards, he swung

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