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PART 2<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I hurried downstairs and heard Dorothy\u2019s weak voice behind the storage-room door.<\/p>\n

The handle would not turn. I pushed against the old wood until the latch finally broke.<\/p>\n

Dorothy sat on the floor beside several cardboard boxes, one hand resting on her ankle. An overturned stool lay nearby.<\/p>\n

She had climbed up to reach a shelf, fallen, and become trapped when the door swung shut.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is Alex?\u201d I demanded.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe went to the pharmacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before I could say more, the front door slammed upstairs. Alex\u2019s footsteps raced through the house. When he appeared, his face went pale, and the pharmacy bag slipped from his hand.<\/p>\n

He rushed toward Dorothy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was gone for twenty minutes,\u201d he said, his hands shaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was long enough,\u201d I snapped.<\/p>\n

I called the paramedics. While we waited, Alex placed a folded blanket beneath Dorothy\u2019s leg and spoke softly to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cStay with me, Dot. Help is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not dying,\u201d she muttered.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen stop looking at me that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

His expression tightened, and I realized he was fighting tears.<\/p>\n

The paramedics confirmed that Dorothy had badly sprained her ankle but had not broken it. After they left, I turned toward Alex.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is happening here?\u201d<\/p>\n

He looked at Dorothy.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe should tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I faced her.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou stopped answering my calls. He has a key, you haven\u2019t left the house, and the messages from your phone don\u2019t sound like you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dorothy lowered her eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t written by me.\u201d<\/p>\n

My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Alex raised his hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe asked me to send them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

The package Alex had delivered a month earlier contained personal medical supplies. It had split open on her porch. Dorothy was embarrassed by her changing health and had been too ashamed to tell me.<\/p>\n

She expected Alex to laugh.<\/p>\n

Instead, he quietly gathered everything, carried it inside, and asked whether she needed help.<\/p>\n

He noticed there was almost no food in her refrigerator. After work, he returned with food and later repaired several things around the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you fell in love with him?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

Dorothy smiled.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot the way you imagined. I love him like the grandson I never had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex\u2019s mother had died when he was sixteen. His father disappeared soon afterward. Since then, he had moved between relatives, cheap rooms, and his car while working long hours making deliveries.<\/p>\n

Dorothy discovered the truth after seeing his belongings piled in the back seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had three empty bedrooms,\u201d she said. \u201cHe had nowhere safe to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo she let me stay,\u201d Alex added.<\/p>\n

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