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.

called

abruptly turned around, and for a fleeting moment, she caught a glimpse of an unfamiliar emotion

heartache.

an instant, the unfamiliar emotion in Zayn’s eyes vanished, replaced once again by the familiar indifference and

Zayn sneered, his voice dripping with

could utter a word, he interjected coldly,

“Divorce?”

As Zayn’s words

that their 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 left her

her, she still didn’t want to divorce

the mantle of

the depths of her grief. It was hoarse

you swore you’d never leave me. You said,

he interrupted Willow. “Are you done playing your disgusting games? Why do you keep putting

things she wanted to say to him, but Zayn’s hurtful remarks left her momentarily speechless. At that moment, she could only mutter, Zayn, I won’t divorce you. I’m

a

heart plummeted as her gaze fell upon the stark words “Divorce

aware that Zayn’s haste to divorce her was fueled by his desire to openly wed Skyler. Although her

position as Zayn’s wife until the