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Imani pulled on my torso from behind, her smaller arms wrapping around me tightly to hold me back into the house as this thug did his job to lay Mom to rest somewhere. Imani’s body was trembling behind me, but she held herself strong and refused to let me pull her through the doorway.
“Don’t let Ana see her,” I pleaded, spotting Ana lying in Kai’s arms inside Imani’s heated car, her head on his shoulder and her fingers playing with the ends of his hair. “Please, I don’t want her to see Mom like this.”
The man stopped at the front door, then went around the back of the house instead of walking by Ana to his car. They pulled their van around back and deposited Mom in the backseat, her body looking so fragile and frail. I stared at her with tears in my eyes and hurt in my heart.
My entire world was shattering. This couldn’t be real.
This was selfish of her, so fucking selfish. Life was hard for everyone. But instead of trying to get clean, she had quit on everyone who loved her, on everyone who looked up to her, on everyone who knew that she could get better.
She had given up on Ana.
She had given up on me.
I had been with her every fucking step of the way since Dad had left and Ana had gotten sick. I had done so much to help her get clean and to help her stay clean. Blood of the Redwood rich covered my hands for her.
And she had decided that she didn’t want to help care for Ana anymore.
