Title: Scumbag Billionaire
Author: Harper Kingsley
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He’d been surrounded by the aspect of death for his entire life.
It was part of living in the modern world. To constantly be barraged with misery and death until the brain became inured to it. Violence and vulgarity became something the mind automatically glossed over.
Ames had been so totally engulfed in apathy towards death that his cancer diagnosis had shaken his foundation.
He completely fell apart.
He’d been inured to the concept of death.
He was terrified of dying.
It had taken all his strength to pretend to be all right with his death. He’d given smiles to his family and friends. He’d done everything he could to keep them from seeing his gibbering terror.
He’d dealt with the pain and the indignity himself far, far away. He hadn’t wanted anyone to see him falling apart.
Even after the treatment had failed, he’d kept up the act that he was dying with grace.
His panic and despair were the only things he’d been able to keep for himself as sickness had taken away everything else. No one had thought to let him keep any privacy.
He’d maintained his facade of graceful acceptance right up until the very end. He hoped his loved ones would be able to go on with their lives. He didn’t want to be a negative burden that anyone had to bear.
He hoped that he was remembered fondly.
A bright flame burn out too quick, he thought. There were so many things he’d never gotten the chance to do. He’d gone straight from working hard every day to lying in his death bed. There had been no transition period. Simply the realization that all those chances were gone.
There were so many things he’d pushed away to do later. And here’s what later got him.
TBC…
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