Chapter73

"Goodnight love."

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Heather's POV:

Never had I proposed to offer myself to someone. I'd just done so with Ace. Literally but indirectly.

"What's up with you? What's so special about you?" I asked myself.

We'd not even been together for months. Just a few weeks. But I couldn't last without seeing or talking to him. I got under my blanket to get good sleep.

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'I'm with my father. We're smiling at each other. But I'm twenty two. I'm not ten. I begin to cry with joy, hugging him tight.

"Oh my darling. You've grown so much," he says with tears in his eyes.

"I miss you, dad. Mom is– she is unbelievable."

"I know. You're mother is going to be judged. Her time is fast approaching."

I look at him.

"What?"

He smiles at me.

"As for that young boy, keep him," my father says with a smile. I stare at him, lost.

"He'll avenge me. Keep him."

"Ace??" I ask lost.

"Who is Ace? I'm talking about that young boy. The young boy."

"Sh– Sheridan?"

"Yes! The young boy. Keep him."