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  The tumour in her head had pressed on her neighbouring nerves and caused her to land into a comatose. She might never wake up. Still, Danny remained helpful. He continued raising money for Adelie.

  When he found out what her foster parents had done to her and how they had scooted off with Adelie’s inheritance, Danny swore that he would have his revenge. He swore that he would find justice for Adelie. He stayed by her bed every day, to ensure that her foster parents would not harm her in any way for the remaining inheritance.

  January 2009-It was only until two years later that Adelie awoke from her slumber. Danny was 20 by then. Working as a newspaper editor, he employed an elderly couple to take care of Adelie. They stayed at Adelie’s former residence where Danny would keep watch everyday to make sure that her foster parents never returned.

  He would pass by her window everyday, watching her smile and do her art. She always had a smile on her face that lit the world. He watched as her hair grew longer, from being bald to having a short bob and then finally she had silky long hair.

  Danny knew that he had to keep the truth from Adelie. She must never know that she had been cheated for the past 18 years of her life. She must never know that her foster parents had never loved her. They just wanted her dead. Could Adelie take it?

  Before she had slipped into a comatose, she had been preparing for a final year examination where Adelie hoped that she would enter a prestigious university. She never got to take the examination.

  As soon as she was well, Danny enrolled Adelie into a neighbouring college. A college where no one knew Adelie. Adelie never had memories of her childhood or of her parents. Her current parents had told her that she had fallen and hurt her head.

  Danny protected Adelie from afar, watching her from the oak tree which overlooked her house. He was determined to give Adelie a fresh new start, where he knew he was just an imprint from a painful past which she might not want to remember…

  IV.

  ADELIE

  Chapter 13

  Embrace

  March 2013

  “ Tell me what is wrong, Danny.. please tell me”

  She begged as she plucked her courage

  “ It’s too late. Adelie. It’s too late…”

  Danny gasped in between his tears as he held her tightly in his arms.

  It was the first hug that they had shared in ages. Adelie felt a surge of familiarity and warmth with his hug. It felt like hugging a very familiar lover.. not someone whom she had barely known.. and yet she had barely known Danny…

  “ What is too late, Danny? Tell me!”

  He looked at her and hugged her even more tightly.

  “ Adelie- I have killed your foster parents…”

  She froze and pushed him away.

  “You have what? What foster parents?”

  “ Killed your foster parents, Adelie! They were the ones who made you suffer all those years as a child! Look at the scars you have on your back! You were in a coma for 4 years. Who did that to you?”

  Adelie fall back onto the hard ground as memories of her past started to engulf her..

  Chapter 14

  Flee

  Adelie remembered the times where she had often been neglected by her parents. She always felt that they didn’t love her.

  Other than providing for her necessities, they never bothered to ask her about her life or show concern towards her. She had a few small burnt scars on her back but she never remembered how she had got them.

  The police would discover that Danny Alonzo was the killer one day. He would be sentenced to death by hanging and they would be apart forever. He had committed a crime of passion where he had killed the ones who had made Adelie’s life a misery.

  He had chanced upon them stalking Adelie one day and shot them dead to end the danger that they had placed Adelie’s life in.

  Adelie sent a text message to inform the crew of her resignation and she fled with Danny. They would go to a faraway land where nobody would recognize them and far away from the authorities.

  Hand-in-hand, the reunited lovers fled and went as far as they could go. They settled down on a distant island from California. Danny lay her over the sandy beach.

  “ Adelie… I am so sorry that you have to live a life like this…”

  Adelie caressed Danny and flipped her long black hair to the back. She delivered a deep and passionate kiss to Danny. He groped her bosoms and flushed. Danny lay Adelie slowly on the sandy beach and inserted his penis into her, rocking her hard. Her boobs jiggled as he made love to her.

  The sunset cast a reddish glow onto the island. It had all seemed so surreal. For them, it was a love packed with a sense of danger. And they had liked it that way.