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."
that wasn't enough, he insisted on picking out another gift.
I didn't argue.
shopping mall,
watching their own life play out from a
we ran into
Nina.
in white. Her makeup was soft, natural-deliberately
perfect picture of
moment she saw Pax, something in her
Her shoulders trembled as if she
slowly, she should really consider
control, she could land a starring role
voice trembling with raw emotion. "He said
hands clutched the fabric of her dress, wringing
believe him.
her head, exhaling
it's true, isn't
world around us
by, conversations still
Yet somehow-
Everything around us blurred.
a scene suspended in
the three of
Pax turned to me.
he needed to read my expression
decide how to
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