den act of kindness brought me and my hu
g companion, but I never expected
ath that I discovered she had been coll
the next one
to the laughter coming from inside th
any idea about us being together?" The breathle
d. "You sly thing, why bring he
arza, and we had been marri
et married after Katie was dead? She's been gone for almo
ntioning dea
what I though
planning t
process the words. My body stiff
massive accidental death insurance policy just a few months ago. The insura
ed me and gave
Katie any insurance. Otherwise, we could ha
outh and barely suppressed the scre
brutally murdered a
new about it
ghter, after all. I won't be peaceful i
our daughter and carried your
ed down my f
the fact that my husband betrayed me and plotted again
inuing the conversation. He pulled
body. After a long time, I quietly ste
e that I could give Hector and Nora a surprise, I might neve
her youthful smile etched on the tombston
versity in another city and wa
r over twenty times just for bein
the hospital. The killer was
ods and barely make a hundred bucks. Why should that little brat carry a
kground thoroughly. He had no connection
cky to meet with the killer con
psed. For a long time, I couldn't pull myse
city as soon as she learned the news. She appl
ip, I might not have recov
ghtful foster daughter, would not only conspire with my husband
ose in m
for Katie, Nora would never have escaped the re
chool organized a trip to a remote, i
, who was two years
the trip. In just two weeks,
turned home, she ke
had passed away and her father was bedrid
uld bring Nora home
child and had alway
I began to consider the idea. Then Hector a
long time ago through our business ventures, so i
ut of the remote mounta
ie described: quiet, d
trying to please Hector and me. Her
h hardship that she had become so consi
myself a dozen times while s
nake into my home. How foolish I
t, overwhelmed by a storm of grief and
's photo that I would make the one who ha
ten off the plane and return
herself in the ki
d glasses perched on his nose and made him exude an
ked peaceful
d been cruelly killed by her fath
ails dug into my palms to force myself t
you're back! It's just the right time. Dinner is almost ready.
and her otherwise unremarkable feat
or and could hardly believe that she said
over to me. His refined face wore a
ght. I ca
n't continue to trample over the death
m applying a face mask when Nora
eat much at dinner, so I ma
tanding behind me, holding an elegant crystal bowl
otion as I pressed t
rom the trip, and don't have much
been very meek
e would immediately back of
today to buy fresh materials and made this dessert just for you. It's lo
or, locked in a silent st
n the table," I
crossed Nora's eyes as she
o remind me, saying, "Mom, make sur
d and was filled with th
tence that I had it
e bowl and had
d out of the bedroom. Sure enough,
collect the bowl," she said.
I had finished it and came
e my room and spying on me to mak
n laced with someth
t expos
d said, "Nora, you'r
iercing gaze. "Mom, I just want to
, "Are you taking care of me? After seducing my husband
t I've been able to recover so quickly. Alright, I just got b
he door in
truly
haustion and sleepiness c
te, I slipped into
insurance policy hasn't been valid for the full six months y
jostling and faintly hear
tly bound, and I was stuffe
e the bedroom last night
stop, and my body slamm
ry of pain that r
dulous, and his voic
"You...
eady back last night. When we were talking, s
.. How could she act so
t I remained composed a
g everything was fine. She's planning to take revenge on us. Stop dithe
ted moving f
and the atmosphere gr
ore and guessed how the
wanted my hefty
d have to look l
Would I fall off a cliff?
g time, and the road be
umpiness that we were h
the car came
ar, and I immediately shut my ey
rabbed two shovels out of i
secluded spot an
pen just enough to see them walking away with th
planning to b