All too late for his love

Chapter 12

Perhaps she had truly given up at that point, as Willow made no further attempt to fight back. As the cold steel pierced her flesh, she wearily closed her eyes. As the world around her plunged into darkness, she heard a desperate voice calling out her name.

Afterward, she heard someone tenderly calling out to her, “Lolo,”

The voice sounded similar to the aloof youth from her past, the one who had once showered her with affection. He had called her “Lolo” with a voice brimming

with love

She was well aware that this purported tenderness was merely her own illusion, a product of her longing for her youth and for her beloved Zayn.

However, her beloved Zayn, who was once the object of her deepest affections, now lay entombed alongside her broken heart, forever lost to the vast expanse of

time.

When Willow wok

woke up, she realized it was the morning of the next

next day, and she was astonished to find herself back in Bordello, with her hands intact. Then, she saw Zayn, with his slender frame and elegant posture, standing before the window, his back turned toward her as he stood by the window.

tentatively called out,

fleeting moment, she caught a glimpse of an unfamiliar emotion in his gaze–an emotion that could

heartache.

the unfamiliar emotion in Zayn’s eyes vanished, replaced once again by the

Zayn sneered, his voice

he interjected coldly, “willow,

“Divorce?”

As Zayn’s words

marriage was a twisted game of revenge, a means for him to exact his pain upon her. Yet, despite this knowledge, the mention of divorce still

at her,

the mantle of his w wife even

of her grief. It was hoarse with a distinct tremble,

me. You said, “Till death do us part!‘

scoffed as he interrupted Willow. “Are you done playing your

remarks left her momentarily speechless. At

and forcefully hurled a stack of papers at her

fell upon the stark

fueled by his desire to openly wed Skyler. Although her trail state couldn’t hinder him from doing so, she refused to allow Skyler to relish in

determined to hold onto the position as Zayn’s wife until the