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."
wasn't enough, he insisted on
I didn't argue.
the high-end shopping
their own life play out
we ran into
Nina.
Her makeup was soft, natural-deliberately
picture of
moment she saw Pax, something in
down her cheeks in silent, measured streams. Her shoulders trembled as if she were
she should
could land a starring
whispered, voice trembling with raw emotion. "He said you were going
her dress, wringing it as if
believe
her head, exhaling in sharp,
true, isn't
world around us
by, conversations still buzzed in the
Yet somehow-
Everything around us blurred.
scene suspended
the three
Pax turned to me.
was instinctive, reflexive-like he needed
decide how
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