The Love that Never Really Dies

Despite her efforts, not a sound emerged from beyond the door.

Tears streamed down her large unblinking eyes as Vivian felt demoralized.

“Daddy doesn’t want me anymore,” she sobbed. “Mommy isn’t here and Daddy doesn’t want us anymore. We are abandoned children to be sent to the orphanage.”

Matteo and Ian exchanged startled glances at the sound of their sister’s crying.

Thankfully, her cries had compelled Sebastian to open the door at last.

“Daddy!” chorused the children.

However, they were saddened to see that their father, who once stood tall and proud, had descended into a state of depression. He looked so forlorn and disheveled that he was almost unrecognizable.

“Daddy, don’t be like this. We still have to search for Mommy. Please, pull yourself together for her sake.’

Vivian was the most upset out of all three. At the pathetic sight of her father, she reached out and hugged his thigh tenderly as she gazed up at him with teary eyes.

Sebastian closed his eyes as he slowly knelt down next to her.

“Give Daddy a hug.”

“Okay.”

Vivian’s smile returned. She stretched out her plump arms and threw herself into Sebastian’s embrace with her head buried in his chest.

Matteo ambled

the children into the room. Finally, Frederick and

Mommy must still be alive. We will look for her

that so? Why are you so sure about that?”

since he had heard the

sure. Because Mommy had once said that no matter what happens to her, she will never abandon us. Daddy, all three of us can feel her out there. She must still be

about to chastise his son for being naive when he had the sudden realization that his faith

I so quick to believe that

corpse and the urn be sufficient evidence for

long week of agony, Sebastian finally

strode over to the window that had been shut

thick curtains apart. In a flash, the

joy at having their father back.

going to find

the triplets’ intuition was correct. Sasha was

moment, she was awake though her movements were limited. To her panic, she had lost the feeling in both her legs and

Nancy, here is your medicine for today. I must remind you to

in a bottle cap before her. There

Sasha ignored her.

a doctor herself, she knew very well

air, she wheeled herself