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

I didn't argue.

him through the high-end shopping mall, trailing

watching their own life play out from

we ran

Nina.

Her

perfect picture of

moment she saw Pax, something in her

immediately, slipping down her cheeks in silent, measured streams. Her shoulders

inhaled slowly, she should really consider

level of control, she could land a starring role without an

me," she whispered, voice trembling with raw emotion. "He

her dress, wringing it as

didn't believe him. I

her head, exhaling in

it's true,

world around us didn't

passed by, conversations still

Yet somehow-

Everything around us blurred.

a scene

three

Pax turned to me.

he needed to read my expression before

how to

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