The Heartbreak Prescription

Chapter 47

He reminded her that the area was dangerous and urged her to leave quickly. The people chasing him were closing in, and she wouldn't make it out alive if she stayed.

But the girl didn't leave. Instead of running, she struggled to drag him with her, pulling him into a hidden cave.

"Big Brother, this place is safe. They won't find us here," she said.

He looked at the girl-so young, only a child. It was already into the winter months, but she was wearing just a thin, faded dress

that had been washed so many times it was nearly white. It seemed like she had been in this forest alone for a long time, her only

companion the tattered doll she clutched in her arms.

He was badly injured, his body icy-cold.

The girl reached out and hugged him. "Are you cold? If I hold you like this, you won't feel cold anymore."

He looked into her eyes, so clear and bright.

"Why are you here alone? Where's your home? Where are your parents?" he asked.

The girl was silent for a moment. “I have no home, no parents. No one wants me in this world."

He pulled her into his arms. "If I survive, I'll take you out of here. I want you around."

the crystal pendant around his neck and placed

holding each other for warmth.

woke the next morning, the girl

comrades arrived, and he had no choice but

are you...? Don't leave!" Stanley mumbled in his sleep,

a dream. He had dreamed of that

fact, he had found her long ago-that girl

circle knew that he and Jessica were

all these years, raising her

be spoiled and radiant.

was

to him, he still

dreamed of her thin body, so determined as she dragged him

of her warmth, holding him

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her sudden disappearance, waking

tried to move, but then he suddenly realized there was a soft, fragrant body in

saw Wendy lying there, her head resting against his chest. The memories from the night before came flooding back. He remembered everything-how

against him, and he had wrapped his arms around

had spent the night like