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"Okay… that , he looked about eighteen to me

I wheeled him down the corridor toward the spare bedroo our destination My pulse was racing stupidly fast as I reached for the handle and pushed the door open

As I pushed hilued to his face His first reaction was to frown as he gazed around at the elaborate setup I had worked hard on yesterday And then he looked up ata brow

"This is… for"All for you For as long as you’re with us"

His hands slipped to the wheels of his chair and he moved himself forward on a tour of the room He eyed each of the apparatuses closely He reached out a hand and grazed his fingers over two of the shts Then he looked out of the h that he could coh to be able to get a breathtaking view, even when standing on the other end of the rooh up that if one blocked out the walls fro

"Thank you, Grace," he said "When you said surprise, I… really didn’t expect this"

He returned to the pair of sh they had been the lightest and shed down his ariti the to help hiround noould be here with hi hie, but otherwise, I wanted him to feel like he was completely on his own here Free to do whatever he wanted His fingers tightening around the teights, his face scrunched, but slowly, he raised them up over his head They dropped doiftly, but he pushed theain

Then he rested, letting out a breath

I went to fetch some water for hi

"I thought that you could colass of water "I thought it would beup and down that salass of water, I set it down beforeover to the MP3 player I had no idea what kind ofthat was on there, a pop song

He didn’t seem to pay much attention to the istered the sound After he’d finished drinking, I took the glass froentle exercises