Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter 536

A full day and night...

Lindey must've come straight here after I left the Johnston residence.

When I saw her kneeling there, hunched over, it felt like my heart was caught in a vice.

Abbot Levinsky moved toward her, but I just stood there, frozen.

After what felt like forever, I finally made myself move knelt down beside her and whispered, "Lindey."

She flinched, then slowly looked up at me, disbelief flickering across her face. Her lips trembled, but she didn't say anything-just let the tears fall,

I looked at her tear-streaked cheeks and the gray creeping into her hair, and I couldn't believe how much she seemed to have aged overnight. "Rea..." Her voice was shaky as she said my name, then pulled me into a tight hug.

Her embrace had once been my safest place, the warmest in my world. But now? I couldn't bring myself to lift my arms and hold her back.

for

hurt would change. the fact that they were gone. Holding onto this hate was

Levinsky's stories Suddenly, it hit

my hate wouldn't bring them back. What was the point of it? It only fed my own pain. "You're not going to find peace here," I said, my voice tight. "That's something only

parents'

I could let this go, maybe they could finally find peace too. "What's done is done. Matthew... I'm done pursuing it. As I said it, the weight I'd been carrying on my chest finally lifted. "He's already

catching up to people who do wrong.

was time to let fate take it from

on, let me help

so long, she

hand and nodding gently.

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me tightly. "Ren, will I still be