Romance

Excuse Me I M Leaving For A Future Without You

by Bowl of Rice

Graham Whitlock was leaving for the remote Northreach Research Station to work on a long-term research project. Before he left, he told me:“Audrey, the conditions out there are harsh, and the regulations don’t allow family members to come along. Our family needs you here, too. Please wait for me for three years. I’ll be back as soon as I can.”But three years became another three years.I waited for Graham for seven years.He still never came home.One phone call every five days. One video call a month. We saw each other only during the few precious days of leave he was allowed each year.Yet I never complained, not even once. I was afraid of getting in the way of his career.Then I became pregnant.Only then was my emergency family-visit request finally approved.After a grueling journey of thousands of miles, I arrived at the station and excitedly knocked on the door of his residence.A little girl answered.“Daddy, someone’s here! I don’t know her!”I thought I had the wrong room.But the next second, Graham’s indulgent voice came from inside.“Sweetheart, Daddy’s busy right now. I’ll have Mommy go see who it is.”His assistant, Mara Collins, came to answer the door.The moment she saw me, she froze, too shocked to speak.“Mrs. Whitlock, why are you here...?”I held a hand over my pregnant belly.After seven years of waiting, the heart I had kept suspended all this time finally died.It turned out Graham Whitlock hadn’t stopped caring about his family.He simply wasn’t caring about our family.

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