Love's Shadow: A Bitter End

I had been dead for a year, my spirit tethered to my daughter, Emma, watching over her in the orphanage.

Then, the director called my ex-husband, Elroy, for Emma' s urgent medical treatment, but he coldly refused, telling her, "Then let her die. It would be a convenience. She can go join her short-lived mother."

A week later, Emma died at five years old, because her father wouldn' t spare the money to save her.

Days later, Elroy arrived at the orphanage, believing I had faked Emma' s death to manipulate him. He pulled back the sheet covering her small body, sneering, "Very realistic.