Keeping Secrets
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Last published Sat, May 4, 2019
Trying to find normalicy, Iris runs into some of the hardest decisions of her life. After overcoming trauma, she settles down and starts her future. But when problems keep popping up, how will she handle them?
"I felt like I was back at the hospital, smelling the anesthetic-- hearing those wretched words over and over again.
The news they gave me wasn't what crushed me, it was their pathetic apologies they gave me to go along with it that did.
"Iris..?" I blinked, my thoughts leaving me.
I heard my name. But it wasn't Hayden's voice..
It was like he could read my mind-- like he thought I was calling him down here.
Which I wasn't.
I wish he'd turn back.
He should have never came here..
I shouldn't have encouraged him."
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