My Love Until the Last Goodbye (Mary and Maximus)

It had been a month since Amanda was taken off life support. The lives of the Evans, Moriarty, and Palmer families had changed drastically.noveldrama

No one saw it coming. No one could've imagined that all the peace they'd been living with the stream of good news, one after another-would end so suddenly.

Sadly, what the whole family feared most had come true: Amanda didn't make it. Lucius was the one who had to make the painful decision. She needed to rest- she had to go. She couldn't keep living like that... not really alive, not truly dead. It was something she had once confessed to him during a pillow talk-that being in that kind of state terrified her.

Lucius stood before the plaque marking where his young, beloved wife rested, holding a bouquet of flowers. She had never told him which ones were her favorite, so he brought her a mix-one of everything.

Standing there, he couldn't stop the lump in his throat from forming, or the tears from welling in his eyes as he remembered the absurd way she'd left him. Her last look, her final smile, the final time he felt the warmth of her body in his arms-it all played in his mind.

He cried in silence, still trying to accept that she was really gone. But it was impossible not to cry.

Amanda had come into his life out of nowhere. Now that he thought about it, it was as if life itself had foreshadowed it—she was never meant to stay.

He had met her one day at a café, though she insisted they'd actually met earlier —at the airport, arguing with Moriarty. She always claimed she'd liked him first and never let him forget it. But he remembered meeting her while she worked at the café.

The moment he saw her, he fell for her-those eyes, so much like his mother's... her mischievous smile. It took him no time to talk to her, and even less to go on their first date. And even less than that to move in together.

They took longer to make their relationship public than they did to end up pregnant.

The only thing they didn't rush was getting married-and that was only because Moriarty wouldn't let them live in sin. They had lived every. moment like there was no

tomorrow. And in the end,, 2 em

wasn't. They lived everything.. everything except the life they were supposed to have with their daughter. That's where life failed them.

He cried because his daughter never got to know her mother. She never got to feel her, see her, be held or comforted by her.

His daughter never got that first caress, that first kiss, that first meal. They missed the photo session they'd planned for before and after the birth. Just thinking about it tore him apart more than anything.

It hurt to look at his daughter, to hold her and know she'd never be in her mother's arms. Because Amanda had been unconscious the day she was born.

"Oh, Amanda... You would've loved our daughter. She looks just like you-got your attitude too," Lucius said, his voice trembling. "She's a little screamer, just like you were. And God, I miss your yelling... I miss hearing you sing off-key, I miss your smile and your mischief."

"Angela's been helping me take care of her. She stayed home with her today- says she's still too little to bring here. But maybe in a few months, I'll be able to."

"You should see Moriarty-he's gone crazy for her. And Angela and Valentina Even more so. My dad wanted me to move in with them

but I couldn't. They have their own lives. Diana's pregnant. I don't want to burden them-not when they need peace, when Diana need rest and special care."

"You and I thought we could handle everything... and we couldn't. We never saw

it coming. School, homework, the pregnancy-everything and nothing at once.

We were careless, just like you once said..."

"You have no idea how much I miss you. I need you so much. Angela and Valentina help, but they're not you. No one is. And that's what hurts the most."

"Amanda... It hurts to come see you.

I wish I could stay away for a

while-not because I'm forgetting you or leaving you alone, but because our daughter needs

Every time I come here, it takes so much out of me to recover. I love you, I miss you, but today... today I'm letting you go. Go... be with your mother. Watch over our little girl from wherever you are. Watch over little Amanda. I hope one day you'll come to her in a dream. I hope she gets to know you-even if it's just that way."