All too late for his love

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“Boss, Ms. Sanford is still alive!”

Only then did Zayn pause whatever work he was in the middle of, the pen he gripped in his left hand hovering above the paperwork.

A self–deprecating scoff escaped him next as Liam’s words sank in.

There they were again, the delusions that had been mocking him since Willow’s death.

He’d just imagined Liam, who had never been a wisecrack and took his job seriously, telling him Willow was still alive.

How could Willow possibly be alive when Zayn himself had applied makeup on her reconstructed face and combed through her wig before she was cremated?

He had even personally carried the urn containing her ashes, which was all that was left of her. Willow was not coming back.

“What did you just say, Liam?”

Zayn’s icy voice was quiet, but it seemed to draw the air out of the room and leave Liam breathless.

to take a deep breath to feel the

again, he pointed at his phone on Zayn’s desk and said, “Boss,

become an internet sensation.

Liam’s phone screen

the screen, Willow was indeed pictured smiling as she held up a bottle

in a vintage–looking

barest makeup that accentuated her naturally beautiful features. With a face

presence had always been

angelic in her

enchanting, like an ethereal

the phone screen with the flat side of his thumb as though caressing Willow’s face–the face that

his heart strum back to life in his

For a moment, everything felt right

happiness lasted only a second before he was filled

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everyone in the world had heard of

of a

lived like a robot, a functioning corpse, for a month since Willow’s supposed death.

simply enjoyed watching

out a humorless chuckle as he contemplated Willow’s newfound title, “The Nation’s First