Caleb and I rented a small villa near the beach in Seattle.
He adopted the stray cat I'd been feeding and brought her here as well.
Nathan contacted Caleb,wanting to see me.

Caleb said Evelyn's baby wasn't Nathan's.
She'd been caught with another man in bed in a hotel,causing a scene that led to a miscarriage.
During a police raid on the hotel,Nathan and Evelyn fought,and he seemed to remember the times when we were still together and how kind and thoughtful I was to him back then.
But Caleb sent Nathan a photo of us.
In it,I wore a wig,my smile warm,holding a chubby cat.
Caleb stood beside me,gazing at me tenderly.

After a long pause,Nathan replied furiously:[Sara and I aren't divorced yet!]
Now he remembered I was his wife.
Nathan learned I had sold my grave.
His voice trembled with fear when he called."Sara,are you really sick?"

I mocked,"Without those three years in prison,I might not have gotten stomach cancer."
His voice broke."Sara,I'm sorry.Let me see you,please.I know I was wrong..."
I sighed weakly."Nathan,the only person you love is yourself."
Life with Caleb by the sea was blissful.
As I walked barefoot on the sand,feeling the breeze,my legs gave out,and I collapsed.
Blood gushed from my mouth,staining the golden sand red.
Caleb shakily called for help,trying to wipe my lips clean,but the blood wouldn't stop.
I tried to hold his hand to comfort him,but only blood came when I opened my mouth.
Caleb held me,breathing hard."Sara,stay with me.The doctor's coming."
I had seen my end countless times in nightmares.
Late-stage stomach cancer had low survival rate,any treatment just a final struggle.
On the edge of life and death,the pain Nathan had caused me felt insignificant.
Caleb touched my bald scalp,tears in his eyes."If I hadn't been so scared and confessed my love to you back then,would things have been different?"
But there were no ifs.
If I'd known my fate,I wouldn't have taken the fall for Nathan,wouldn't have been with him.
My final days with Caleb were so happy that I almost wanted to live, to fight my illness.
But despite my newfound attachments,I couldn't stop death.
Fate was unkind.
Despite my will to live,despite Caleb praying thousands of times for my safety,the prison's torment had destroyed my stomach completely.
I couldn't escape death.
As my body,covered in a white sheet,was wheeled into the morgue,my soul floated above.
I saw Caleb sobbing,covering his face.
I saw Nathan rush into the hospital,trying to see my face for one last time.
But Caleb pinned him down,punching him wildly.
Nathan wandered Seattle's streets,dazed.
The city wasn't so big;every street held memories of us.
The diner we ate at,the trendy bubble tea shop I "forced" him to wait in line to buy me
But now,everything had changed.
The girl who once stood by Nathan was now a cold corpse.