The next second, Zachary realized he was holding my arm in his right hand. He froze in place.
I looked at him, almost enjoying the moment. I hoped to see some flicker of regret on his face.
But there was nothing.
“How could this be? I was sure it was Sarah,” Zachary muttered to himself.
Bobby, noticing something was off, immediately had people go inside the tank to search
Soon, they found me by the water inlet. My posture was strange, somewhere between squatting and not quite.
As soon as I saw my body, painful memories flooded back like a tidal wave.
The final moments before my death played out in my mind.
Not long after I was locked in, the shock caused my water to break, and I went into labor a week early.
By the time I delivered my babies through the intense pain, I was completely drained and had no strength left.
I held my first baby, Ashton, at the top of the tank, but my second, Alex, didn’t make it. The prolonged labor led to his death, yet I still held his lifeless body.
I didn’t know how long I had been holding them. When the water level started to drop, I was about to breathe a sigh of relief,
but then I felt a sudden pull.
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I watched as Alex slipped from my hands and was swept into the drain. I desperately reached out, but I couldn’t catch him.
Then, not long after, Ashton also stopped breathing from the cold. As if to add to my misery, the drainage system activated
again.
I had already lost Alex. I couldn’t lose Ashton too, so I used I my own body to block the drain while holding him tight in my
arms.
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But then the water started heating up. Boiling water filled the tank, and Ashton melted away in my arms.
Recalling this, I screamed, curling up on the ground. Until now, I had actually lost that part of my memory.
“I’m so sorry, my babies,” I muttered.
Regret and sorrow crushed me from within.
If I hadn’t been so blind, I would have had a perfect family and two children playing at my feet. I would have had a career
loved, blossoming before me as the years went by.
But Zachary had destroyed it all with his own two hands.
Later, when he received my autopsy report, he still couldn’t believe it.
He looked up in shock. “Is it really… her?”
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