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She stumbled back, leaning against the wall as if she had just heard the most ridiculous thing in the world.
“He was such a strong man. How could he die?”
He was Corbin Vance. Even when his legs were broken, even when his dreams were stolen, even when he was so poor he had to live on scraps, he was the kind of man who could find beauty even in the most miserable life! He had such a fierce will to live. How could he just be gone?
There’s something wrong here. There has to be.”
‘How exactly did my husband die!” Sloane’s eyes burned red as she screamed, tears shimmering in her eyes.
The staff member let out a long sigh. “We don’t know the exact cause of death. We only know the body was brought in from the anderpass. If you go there, maybe you’ll find something.”
The underpass?
Sloane looked at them in shock. Why would Corbin die in a place like that?
She rushed out of the building and drove to the underpass where Corbin had spent his final moments.
The place was desolate, ruined, and overgrown with weeds. The only residents were homeless people and stray dogs.
Was this where Corbin lived before he died?
Sloane’s heart twisted with a sharp pang. She walked forward slowly and saw the patch of grass where he had lain. A piece of clothing sat nearby.
Sloane picked up the worn, faded shirt. Her hands wouldn’t stop shaking.
A homeless man nearby watched her. “Are you that young man’s family?”
Sloane whipped around to look at him. “Do you know how Corbin died?”
The man shrugged. “How else? He overdosed on pills. I saw it with my own eyes.”
‘Poor kid. He was so young. I don’t know what kind of burden he couldn’t bear anymore, but to lie here all alone and kill What a waste of a young soul.”
Sloane stood frozen.
Corbin had actually committed suicide!
But why? Why would he do that?
- Why did Corbin Vance kill himself?
graph. It had been taken three years ago.
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ling brightly at the camera, his face still holding a trace of youthful baby
e was a final act of revenge against her?
ing cloud. As she looked around the room at every
the collapsed onto the floor, burying her face in her hands as she sobbed.
ne
t the very bottom of a drawer.
st the floor over and over until her knuckles bled.
gonizing void in her heart.
le bar, drinking herself into a stupor.
ored Declan Thorne’s calls. Even when Brynn came to see her, Sloane
nd prone to sudden fits of rage.
living room, Sloane snapped at her with terrifying intensity. “I told you
dare make a sound!”
physician listed on the report and demanded to know now
oane away with a look of pure disgustus
she didn’t dare let out a single sob.
he kept the rooms exactly as they were. Every day, she went into the
at Corbin was still alive. No matter who tried to talk sense into her, she
her own at the apartment.
nly Stage 2. It was treatable. I begged mechecking you to. But life has to go on. You’re still carrying o buried in debt, and his daughter neededordeu mimey for
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he left? Are you going to give up on the company? Your de
