With reddened eyes, Samuel finished reading the memo on her phone, feeling as if his heart had stopped beating. He felt frozen, unable to react for what felt like forever.

His Eli, his nice girl, whom he never meant to push away. She was always so optimistic, so lively, so bright and cheerful. She'd told him she loved him, that she never wanted to leave him. How could she have chosen to end her life?

Samuel didn’t believe it. He refused to believe Eliana would be ...