Chapter 77
Twenty-four hours.
That was all the time I had left.
Last night-After Pax asked me to start over, I didn't respond.
I simply sat there, letting the weight of his words sink into the candlelit hush between us.
The restaurant, once warm and intimate, suddenly felt distant, the glow of the chandeliers dimmed by something neither of us was willing to name.
A silence stretched between us, thick and unresolved.
Pax's mother, ever perceptive, didn't push for an answer.
"These kinds of things should be settled between the two of you," she murmured, dabbing the corner of her lips with a napkin. "I've had my fill. I'll be heading home."
Before leaving, she handed me a gift.
An emerald jade bracelet-delicate, flawless.
I refused instantly.
It was too much, too significant.
But Pax didn't hesitate. He took it for me, slipping it into his pocket with the ease
of someone who had already decided for me.
"Then I'll hold onto it for now."
then, as if sensing that wasn't enough, he insisted on picking out another gift.
I didn't argue.
shopping mall, trailing behind
someone watching their own life play
we ran
Nina.
in white. Her makeup was
picture
saw Pax, something in
welled up immediately, slipping down her cheeks in silent, measured streams. Her shoulders
inhaled slowly, she should
she could land a
me," she whispered, voice trembling with raw emotion. "He said you were going
of her dress, wringing it as if
didn't believe
head, exhaling in sharp,
true, isn't
around us
by, conversations still buzzed in
Yet somehow-
Everything around us blurred.
scene suspended in
the three
Pax turned to me.
reflexive-like he needed to read
decide how
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