PART THREE: Asclepius ~ The Light Before the Darkness
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⚠️ Content Warning: Themes of emotional vulnerability, love, and the death of a loved one.
Then she met Asclepius. He was kind, patient, and gentle with her, a rare calm in her chaotic world. He treated her with a tenderness she had long forgotten. Moaa tried to resist. She couldn’t trust love again. Not after Eros. Not after Cupid. She was in denial, convinced that this was yet another illusion, another joke that life was playing on her. How could he be so good to her? It felt so unreal.
Even as she grew to like Asclepius, fear took hold. She had vowed never to fall in love again to protect her heart. So, Moaa made up her mind and prepared to disappear from his life before it was too late. But Asclepius wouldn't let her go easily. He fought for her, showing and proving that his love was real and that she deserved o he cherished and cared for. Slowly, Moaa began to believe him. The walls she had painstakingly built around her heart melted away with ease, and for the first time in years, she allowed herself to love again.
But fate, it seemed, had one last cruelty in store.
Just as Moaa began to feel whole, Asclepius fell ill. The doctors said it was his heart, and there was nothing they could do. She watched in horror as the man who brightened her life slowly slipped away.
She held his hand until the end, tears falling on the hospital sheets as she whispered words of love and farewell.
Those were the last words Asclepius ever heard.
TO BE CONTINUED...
(Some stories don’t end with death. Some begin with it.)
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