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 feel the air pressure in the room return to

he pointed at his phone on Zayn’s desk and said, “Boss, Ms. Sanford

has become an internet sensation. She’s

on Liam’s phone

pictured smiling as she

breathtaking in a vintage–looking

her naturally beautiful features. With a face like that, she could put other

Willow’s presence had always

the pictures and looked so angelic in her

enchanting, like an

couldn’t help rubbing the phone screen with the flat side of his thumb as though caressing Willow’s face–the

heart strum back to life

alive. For a moment,

Zayn’s happiness lasted only a second before

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everyone in the world had heard of Zayn losing

a mystery

robot, a functioning corpse, for a month since Willow’s supposed death. And yet, she couldn’t

she simply enjoyed watching his mind unravel with

he contemplated Willow’s newfound title, “The Nation’s First