Aggression In the hospital.

"Raegan, I blame myself...

You've suffered so much looking after me," Raegan’'s grandmother said, her eyes filling with tears.

Her emotional vulnerability had increased over the years.

"Don't worry, grandma.

You've always been there for me.

Now it’s my turn to look out for you," Raegan replied, her eyes moistening as well.

Brent was an asshole.

He rarely made time for family.

To ensure Raegan could attend school, Raegan's grandmother had taken on various jobs, everything from collecting trash to selling snacks.

As a result, leaving the hospital now seemed nearly impossible after the exhaustion of all these years.

"My only fear is that if something happens to me, there will be no one to care for you.

And you're not married yet, so I won't be able to rest in peace,” Raegan's grandmother confessed.

Brushing away her tears, Raegan said, "Grandma, stop talking like that.

You're going to live a long life.

Didn't you tell me that we would go back to your house together one day?” A glimmer of hope lit up her eyes.

"Could we really go back?” she whispered.

"Absolutely.

Even though Brent sold it, it's still vacant.

I've rented it, and I plan to buy it back as soon asT can afford to," Raegan assured her.

Raegan's grandmother grasped Raegan's hands joyfully and said, "Good, that's wonderful.” She hesitated before adding, "Raegan, I'm not sure I'll live to see that day.

I dreamt of your father last night.

It felt like he was eager to see me in heaven.

I suspect my time is running out." Tears escaped Raegan’'s eyes despite her efforts to hold them back.

Raegan's grandmother handed her a red paper bag containing a padlock-shaped amulet.

"You used to have it when you were a child.

Keep it with you.

Let it bless you for the rest of your life.” Her words struck Raegan like a farewell, causing Raegan to hug her grandmother tightly, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Grandma, I've actually been married for some time.

It's a complicated situation, so I didn't bring it up.” Her grandmother looked stunned.

"When did this happen?" Raegan laid out the entire story, deliberately leaving out the contractual nature of her marriage.

Concluding, Raegan said, "Anyway, he's someone I've cared about for a long time.

He'll come to visit you after he gets back from his business trip.” Night had fallen by the time she left the nursing house.

headed back

with her grandmother, she texted

his flight schedule before

long period of waiting,

dawn broke, her

in a daze,

Mitchel's voice sounded crisp and melodious over the

Raegan answered, "Are you

around to calling you.” The sound of footsteps echoed

back to the hotel?”

to join me?” Mitchel

that ever since they reconciled, their relationship

their intimacy had always

you'll be back soon, right?”

Mitchel replied, "Raegan, are you attempting to seduce me?" Hearing that, Raegan was

I could teleport back and have sex with you

glanced at her phone and realized they were on a

wearing silk pajamas that flattered her

enticing

was in the process of unbuttoning his shirt,

your breast grown bigger recently?” Instantly, Raegan’s cheeks turned crimson and she pulled the quilt up to her

as much since

come to your breast?" Recalling his passionate kiss that day, Raegan found herself at a loss for

"You should

the phone, he added, "I'll make sure you

you're off the hook for now." Just as Raegan was about to share her

moved to the door and spoke in a foreign

tone shifted,

was saying as he'd set

after, he stated, "Alright,

have to go." Mitchel hastily ended the

Raegan was sober now.

the recent phone

thought she heard something about a young

unsure, a wave of

a while, her phone rang

was Nicole, inviting her to

taken aback to see Nicole sporting

a haircut?" "Do you not like it?”

her long hair, her new shorter

an

demeanor, Raegan probed, "Is

to marry me when

I just chopped it

of the man Nicole was alluding to, Raegan found herself at a loss for

out of the country recently?"

been preoccupied with handling Jarrod and wasn't aware that Raegan

saw it on Lauren's posts.” Raegan felt her heart

platform?" Nicole pulled out her phone and navigated to Lauren's homepage, displaying a selfie of Lauren in a light- colored beret,

someone came to pick me

half an hour after Mitchel

Mitchel was the one carrying Lauren's suitcase in

showed a side profile, she knew

mutual friends praised them, declaring them

had responded with

of friends, Mitchel and

though her heart had been pierced, Observing Raegan's expression shift, Nicole believed that sometimes a sharp, immediate pain was preferable

said, "Do you know what's the hardest thing in the world, Raegan? Lauren will always be

shows concern for you now, the moment something

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