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Do you know I had a baby? He died and all I felt was relieved. Do you think that’s why God took so long to send you?
My voice cracks,and I have to take a minute to get myself together before I can carry on.
“Santos told her her baby died?” Maxim growls.
“He was an evil bastard. He’d get off on that kind of thing,” Rémy states.
Calix is quiet, not because he doesn’t agree, but because he’s finding all this out now after years of loving a man who was nothing more than a monster in disguise.
I thinkhe’s with my parents and my brother. They’ll look after him. They really were great parents. I just wish I told them I loved them more. I wish I didn’t act like a brat all the time. I wish I could go back and do it all differently. I would never have gone online, never agreed to meet that boy who wasn’t really a boy at all.
I wouldn’t have accepted that drink.
There’sa water stain on the paper where her tears fell while she wrote.
I thoughtabout what you said. I’m glad you found a family again. I wish I was as strong as you, but the truth is I don’t want a new family. I want the one I had. I want my life back. I don’t want another one.
Don’t be mad. Don’t be sad.
I just want to see my mom. She’d have liked you. She’d really like how you took care of me when she couldn’t.
Maybe God will forgive me and if I’m really lucky, he’ll make me an angel just like you.
Lena.
I stareat the note until her words dawn on me.
I look at Rémy, who gets it at the same time I do, then I’m up and on my feet a second later with the others right on my heels. I run for the ward I know the kids are on, and when I get there, I collide with the doctor that spoke to me before.
“Where’s Lena?”
“She doesn’t want to see anyone.”
I grab him by the white lapels of his coat as Rémy and Calix start yanking open curtains looking for her.
“She’s going to hurt herself, doc. Now where the fuck is she?” Calix snaps.
The doctor looks at me and points to the cubicle. Calix runs for it before I can get there.
“What’s going on?” I hear Reese ask from behind me. I ignore her, skidding to a stop when I get to Calix and find the room empty.
“Shit. Where would she go?” Maxim growls.
I think back to her words before snapping my head around, looking for the exit. “She wants to be an angel,” I reply, heading for the fire exit.
“What does that mean?” Maxim asks, running to keep up with me as the others follow behind.
“She’s going to fly,” I say, looking at him as his eyes flash with understanding.
“Fuck.” He shoves the door to the roof open with his shoulder, and I run past him, stopping when I see Lena standing on the building’s ledge.
Snow is falling lightly and must have been for a while as it coats the rooftops in a thin layer of powder, making my footsteps crunch.
“Stay where you are, don’t freak her out,” Dulce says softly behind me as I slowly walk forward.
“I’ll see if I can find another way to get to her,” Rémy tells me quietly before he disappears.
I walk over to the ledge and softly call her name. “Lena?”
