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.

a deep breath to feel the air pressure in the room return to

on Zayn’s desk and said, “Boss, Ms. Sanford is

internet sensation. She’s now

his gaze on Liam’s

indeed pictured smiling as she held up a bottle of colorless

a vintage–looking white

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

Willow’s presence had always been a sensuous

pictures and looked so angelic in her white dress that it was

looked enchanting, like an

rubbing the phone screen with the flat side of his thumb as though caressing Willow’s

heart strum back to life in his

For a moment, everything felt right

only a second before he was filled

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yet everyone in the world had heard of Zayn losing himself in grief

a

since Willow’s supposed death. And yet, she couldn’t even bother telling him she was alive

simply enjoyed watching his mind unravel with

a humorless chuckle as he contemplated