Dying for His True Happiness

me, Emely Harrison. He was my shadow, my protec

re is a next life, I pray I can be with Kandy." My world shattered. His lifelong devotion wa

y desired, I concealed my own early-onset ALS diagnosis and broke off our engagement, telling hi

agement ring and setting fire to the mansion. Grady, believing her, threw me into a muddy pi

yself, only to wake in a hospital to learn Grady h

ly reached for me? Why did he believe her lies? I had

who had always loved me, and left Grady behind, whispering,

pte

knew Grady Allen lived

moment my parents died and the Allens took me

who fought boys who looked at me wrong, the one who promised to

d ring and a future everyone saw as inevitable. He was the pow

vered, not even when I

esence. He researched every experimental treatment, fired doctors who gav

luckiest woman in the world

as the world faded to b

his voice thick with a g

ghost against my ear. "I've paid my debt. If there is a nex

hysical blow, eve

rom the medication, strug

Kandy

s, years ago, when Grady had disappeared a

h a woman, a musician named K

nd with it, his life as my

d later, had ta

s love. It wasn't. It was guilt. A lifelong

uilt from responsibility. Hi

final, desperate wis

, li

bs strong and steady beneath me. I was sitti

rs. Allen were speaking t

his memory? A more aggressive approach?" Mr

emory back could cause permanent brain damage," th

the day they found Grady, the day my p

as

rantic with joy, desperate t

ng her life was a lie felt nothi

a. And somewhere out there, Ka

o do it right. A chance to be

stand in h

this new life

id, my voice

llen turned to

have to do something,"

"Don't force him.

is time, the outcome was

s came back as a bitter confirmation. Early-onset AL

to the Allens. I found them in the sunroom, their

all off the

in the air, hea

ing to her chest. "Emely, what

ked, his voice grave. "Because he has amnesi

ice even. "But not i

"I have ALS. In the best-case scenario, I have a

y guardians, the people who had

lse. I won't be a burden to him. I won't chain him to a dy

I had ever said. In my last life, I was h

Grady loves you more than life itself! The moment he remembers, h

inful echo of a lif

o. It was from the private investigat

wed Grady sitting by a lake. A young woman with brigh

transformed. He looked at her with a tenderness, a raw-edged adorati

hair behind her ear. He sm

th the weight of unspoken truths. Mr. and Mrs. Al

t the amnesia. That's a love that comes from

lap, my decision a solid

m go. Let me go. It's the

is eyes filled with a deep sad

Jeremiah a small point of warmth in the cold. "I'm going a

ow, at the life I was

more to myself than to the