Snow Man

Chapter 13 - her guardian angel

Exhausted, freezing, dizzy, but none of them stopped me. All I could do was keep trying to make her heart work for its self.

The thump I made every time I pressed down on her chest was the only thing that kept my sane.

I looked at her face again, wiling her to come back to me.

Just come back Annie

I was going to lose her. She wasn't coming back to me. I was going to lose her. I started to slow, to not bother restarting her heart.

I had lost her.

Sitting back down, I realised I am now all alone.

I have no one anymore.

My wife is dead. My daughter is dead. Annie was the only thing I had left. And I had let her slip through my fingers. I let her stop breathing.

I swore to Lauren, well before she died, that I would protect our daughter no matter what.

And I have, up until that moment.

I would never live with myself. Annie was the only reason I have not taken my life yet.

I couldn't leave her with nothing.

No mother. No father. No relatives. No one to take care of our pride and joy.

I have always wanted to join my wife.

In hell or heaven.

I have probably done enough to land myself in hell.

I was never exactly an angel when my wife was alive.

But neither was she. I saw when she snuck out late at night.

I saw when she came home, all roughed up and looking exhausted.

I suspected she was having an affaire. But I never said anything, I never brought it up.

I never caught her either. I just pretended I saw nothing, that nothing was wrong.

I just loved her that much that I was willing to forgive her and over look it.

Looking at Annie I was reminded yet again how much she was like her mother. Her features and her mind.

She never gave up. She has always been a strong girl. She always surprised me.

Even when she watched her mother be murdered and die in her arms. She told the police who she saw but never a description.

She said that it was 'uncle Blake'. But still to this day I have no idea who they wife's killer is.

She never did as expected.

This was proven again. When her foggy breath passed her lips.

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Don't judge me.... I had writers block.

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