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Ally sers "But I didn’t In fact, things only got worse She died and I went to prison"

"Axel…" Ally said in sy up my hand

"Ally, when I went to prison, it forcedshanked"

Ally blinked fast and I rushed to h all that… all that pain, that rage… I would never have talked to the nurse in the infirns I’d never have been forced into the art class to rein in , that then led to , into which I poured my pain I would never have met Vin, who published pictures of el to an exhibition at the Met--"

"Where I saw it in a azine and flew to New York to see it in reality Where I then wrote articles and journals on your works and methods--"

"Where Vin read theether, hired you to curate it… the woman that was friends with my brother… the woman who understoodbreath, "the woman as in the room with my mamma as she passed when I couldn’t be… that saht, she saved Mamma’s lost son"

"Axel… I… I don’t knohat to say…" Ally whispered, as more tears fell from her eyes I pulled her to my chest and breathed in the lavender shahtly, "I alanted this kind of love, this intense love… I just never realized it could be so much more… until you"

I closed my eyes as she said those words and for the first time ever I felt… unburdened

I fixed my attention on my mamma’s ainst el, its title should be "Ave Maria""

"Axel," Ally sighed, "It’s beautiful… it’s perfect"

Ally pressed kisses all alongat her touch "The broken angel is my mamma in this life Trapped in a body she couldn’t escape fro in that hell The ashes she’s holding are symbolic for death"

Ally’s lips had left my neck, her body so still "And the other side?"