The Love that Never Really Dies

A sharp pain tore through her heart, and it hurt so much that even breathing felt painful.

Having lost whatever feelings of excitement she had earlier, Sasha placed the items back on the shelf.

“Would you like to purchase this item, miss?” the salesgirl asked.

“No, thanks…” Sasha replied emotionlessly and dragged herself out of the mall.

She was so absent-minded that she didn’t even know how she got home. All she remembered doing was locking herself up in her bedroom straight till nightfall.

Lance soon returned home with Vivian and was surprised to see an empty living room.

“Where’s your mommy? Is she still out?” he asked as he had bought a lot of ingredients to make their favorite dishes.

Vivian climbed off him and went looking for Sasha in her bedroom.

“Mommy? Are you in there? It’s me, Vivi! Uncle Lance bought us a lot of ingredients today! Come on out, Mommy!” she shouted in her usual childish voice while knocking on the door, but there was no response.

Lance quickly came upstairs and carried Vivian in his arms as he said, “I think your mommy isn’t home yet. She’s probably busy running some errands outside. Come on, let’s wait for her downstairs. I’ll make you something delicious!”

“Okay…”

Vivian could only pout as she went downstairs with Lance.

opened the door after they left and

Uncle Lance? You even bought her favorite

we’ll just keep it in the refrigerator and

“Okay!”

her hands in

continued unpacking the daily necessities

want you to tell her tomorrow that I bought you two all these stuff. They were mailed all the way here from Clear, got it?” he said while waving tubes of toothpaste and bottles of children’s shampoo

to purchase from Clear. As Vivian had sensitive skin, most of the commercial products available in the market weren’t suitable for

but to purchase them all from

of it at once? Three months is a

looked

then pulled out his wallet and handed her

could you hold on to

this?” Vivian asked

no choice but to task him with managing everything in the house. I gave him the credit cards so he could purchase the daily necessities and groceries.

and trembled slightly as she was

keep these safe for me, okay? You can return them to

“Okay!”

clutched those cards tightly against her chest like they were some sort of precious