I jerked. "Autumn?" It meant that almost one year had already passed.
What kind of nonsense is this?
Morgan let out a soft cry again, and that worried me.
"I never thought that the accident would happen." She sniffed. "You were crossing the street, too excited to get to the other side, and I couldn't prevent it. A car sped off in your direction, and—" Her sobs broke, and she covered her mouth with her hand.
My heart seemed to stop.
When Morgan looked up at me, her eyes were glistening with tears.
"You hit your head pretty hard due to the crash. Cassie, you—" She took a deep breath. "You lost a part of your memory."
I was stunned.
"What?" I stuttered. "No, I couldn't have possibly lost my memory. Something like that couldn't have happened to me—" But I stopped short.
The look on Morgan's face as she looked at me sadly made me believe her.
My hands were shaking when I buried my face in them. "Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God."
Silence crept between us.
"That's not possible," I stammered. "What have I forgotten? What has happened that I don't remember?"
Morgan slowly took my hands off my face and looked at me tenderly. She'd never had that kind of loving expression before, and my fear began to fade away.
"Don't worry, my dear." A soft smile touched her lips. "Nothing important happened."
I scrutinized her, trying to believeevery word.
"Nothing."
45
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CASSIE
Present
The tears that have fallen from my eyes onto Aiden's drawing paper in my hand soak his watercolor painting.
My sobs are uncontrollable. I can't breathe. My lips tremble as I scream in my heart.
I remember everything.
How could I not when I stared at all these paintings of his? When I saw what he wrote.
These three letters from him that I keep reading and reading all over again make me go crazy.Mom.
Panic swells inside me, as if the car crash has just happened again.
My baby. My baby. He was hurt.
My hand shaking, I finally dial Luke's number.Luke. The man whom I'd missed so much, to whom I gave all my heart and soul.
How could I forget him?
