All too late for his love

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Nicola shoved a thick bundle of notes into Willow’s arms, and Willow noticed that the emerald bracelet Nicola had always worn on her left wrist was missing.

“Nicola, where’s your bracelet?” Willow questioned.

She grabbed Nicola’s left hand. “Did you sell your bracelet?”

Nicola wasn’t good at lying.

She didn’t know how to respond and awkwardly said, “I don’t like wearing jewelry anyway, so keeping that bracelet is useless.”

You’re spouting nonsense!” Willow knew how much Nicola treasured that emerald bracelet.

The emerald bracelet was a gift from Silas to Nicola as her coming of age present. She had never taken it off since she started wearing it on her wrist. It was her most precious possession.

How could she just sell it like this?

“Willow, calm down.” Nicola was afraid of affecting Willow’s condition.

Seeing Willow so agitated, she couldn’t help but feel anxious, “Willow, that bracelet really isn’t important to me anymore.”

to really like Silas, but he has already given me to someone else. If I continue to like him, I’m just being foolish. Willow, I don’t want

“Nicola…”

of Nicola’s ordeal, Willow’s heart ached. She wanted to comfort her, but words just felt shallow and weak at that moment. She just

girl in the world,

she was eight years old, she rescued a little boy named Silas from the ruins after an earthquake. Before parting ways, he gave her an emerald pendant, promising that he would marry her when

that emerald pendant and his promise

an orphan and the Burley family adopted her,

engagement ceremony with Sylvia a month ago, Nicola inexplicably found herself being framed and ended up in his bed. Sylvia had a mental breakdown and attempted suicide by jumping into

injury, so he married her off to a psychologically disturbed paraplegic, Cillian,

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doing quite well now. Although Cillian has a bad temper, he’s not that bad. Willow, things will get better for us in the future, so you have to hang in there and get better soon

“Nicola comforted Willow.

she wouldn’t get

for her.

from her embrace and intended to tell her a joke to

her left hand, “Willow, what happened to your

hastily

see that her pinky finger on

welled up in Nicola’s eyes instantly. “What happened? Is