Between Ruin And Resolve: My Ex-Husband’s Regret

Chapter 398

Chapter 398:

Hope sparked within Sadie. She expressed her gratitude to the elderly woman and quickly departed from the area.

She flagged down a cab and directed it to the temple on the city’s edge.

As Sadie entered the temple, the air was dense with the aroma of incense, a ritualistic element of the temple’s practices. The scent permeated the ancient structure.

With each step toward the main hall, Sadie’s pulse raced.

She pushed the heavy wooden door open; a wave of sandalwood scent welcomed her. In the subdued light, the deities’ statues stood solemn and majestic.

“Excuse me. Have you seen this woman?” Sadie presented a photo of her mother to a monk mid-prayer.

The monk studied the photo, then slowly shook his head. “I’m sorry, but I have never seen this woman.”

Disappointment washed over Sadie, dousing her flicker of hope. Could her mother have vanished without a trace?

“However…” The monk hesitated, a memory surfacing. “A few years ago, a woman resembling her stayed here briefly. She left something behind.”

Sadie’s eyes

the inner hall and returned with an old

and styled in an ancient design, lay heavy in Sadie’s hand. She

then, her phone rang, shattering

Noah. “Sadie, where are you?” His voice was laced with

live now on

the temple on the outskirts,” Sadie replied, her

up,” Noah said, and then the call

the temple entrance, Sadie gazed out at the distant mountains, her

the key her mother had left

Noah stepped out and

find anything?” he asked, his

said, handing

it intently as his

in the car first,” he

the vehicle and then got in

car pulled away from the temple, Sadie looked back at the

the car disappear into the distance, her eyes

to run into