A Missing Key 218 Missed Calls One Family Secret novel Chapter 49

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

The phone slipped from my hands and shattered on the floor.

I couldn’t hear anything, couldn’t see anything.

The world turned black and white.

I don’t know how I got back to my dorm. I locked myself in my room, not eating, not drinking, not sleeping.

Just collapsed beside my bed and wailed.

Heart-wrenching sobs.

This time it was real.

My mom was truly dead.

Never coming back.

The second funeral was held on a stormy day.

This time there was no coffin, just an empty box draped with a flag.

I stood in the front wearing a crisp military uniform with a white flower on my chest.

Dad came too.

He looked much older than when I’d last seen him-completely gray hair, stooped shoulders.

He stood at the back of the crowd, watching me from afar, his eyes full of regret and pain.

When the ceremony ended, he shuffled toward me.

“Nora…”

I didn’t look at him, walking straight past.

We had nothing left to say.

I walked to the headstone and looked at Mom’s photo.

In the picture, she wore her uniform, looked heroic and radiant, smiling brilliantly.

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I reached out and gently touched her face.

“Mom, the game is over.”

“This time, you really won.”

After Mom’s sacrifice, I requested transfer to the most demanding and dangerous medical frontlines.

I used frenzied work to numb myself.

I saved many people.

One of them was named Marcus Williams.

He was a special forces soldier, one of the teammates Mom had saved with her life in that final mission.

He was badly injured, and I personally pulled him back from death’s door.

When he woke up, he told me many things about Mom.

He said Mom was the most capable fighter on their team, and also the gentlest big sister.

He said Mom would often pull out my photo to look at, bragging to them about having such an excellent and beautiful daughter.

He said the last thing Mom told him before she died was: “Live on, and for me watch over my daughter.”

I listened through my tears.

After Marcus recovered, he stayed at the hospital and became my assistant.

We worked together, lived together, remembered the same person together.

Naturally, we fell in love.

Our wedding was held on a sunny afternoon.

No grand ceremony, just a few closest comrades-in-arms.

I wore a white wedding dress, Marcus wore his dress uniform.

During our vows, I looked at him and said softly: “I do-I marry this country, and I marry you.”

Sunlight streamed through the chapel windows onto us, warm and bright.

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I seemed to see Mom standing not far away, wearing her beloved uniform, smiling as she watched us.

Dad didn’t come to my wedding.

I heard Rebecca had been sentenced for fraud and assault charges.

Jake had been expelled from school for causing trouble.

Dad sold his company and moved alone to a small city where nobody knew him, spending his days drinking.

When I heard this news, I felt no satisfaction, only calm understanding.

That family had finally paid the price for their actions.

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