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.

breath to feel

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

an internet sensation.

on Liam’s phone

indeed pictured smiling as she held up

a vintage–looking white

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

truth, Willow’s presence had always

the pictures and looked so angelic in her white dress that it was hard to imagine her as anything but

like an ethereal

help rubbing the phone screen with the flat side of his thumb as though caressing Willow’s face–the face that occupied his thoughts day and

back to life in

alive. For a moment, everything felt

second before he

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alive, and yet everyone in the world had heard of Zayn

of a

like a robot, a functioning corpse, for a month since Willow’s supposed death. And yet, she couldn’t even bother telling him she was alive and

she simply enjoyed watching his mind unravel with

he contemplated Willow’s newfound title,