Chapter 258

Torrential rain, shattered rocks, thick mud, dense smoke.

These were the last images Evadne saw before her consciousness slipped away, almost in despair.

But with her last bit of strength, just before disaster struck, she pushed the climber to safety.

Even if there was only a sliver of hope, she wanted her to survive.

If she wasn’t prepared for the danger, she didn’t deserve to be in that outfit and show up in that place. She wasn’t afraid to die. As long as her death had meaning, her journey through this tumultuous world wouldn’t be in vain.

She wasn’t always this brave. Even the thought of death or the memory of her father and her stepmothers taking her for a vaccination would make her cry and cause a fuss. She was just a little girl with a flair for the dramatic.

But then at eleven, she met him here.

His bravery, his resilience, his eyes that guided her like a lighthouse in the deep sea, his willingness to live and die with her despite their fleeting encounter, deeply moved her soul.

She realized for the first time that a person could live this way, burning and blooming for themselves.

Even after she married him and even after he hurt her, she had to admit that.

Thaddeus changed her. He changed her life.

Time passed, stars shifted.

Everything happened so fast, like an avalanche!

Evadne had a long and surreal dream during her brief unconsciousness.

She dreamed of playing under her parents‘ knees, her brothers celebrating her birthday with her.

Cassius hoisted her atop a pile of gift boxes, Arnold sang a slightly off–key Happy Birthday, Bennett held the birthday cake as they blew out the candles together, and Elvis gave her the toy gun she had always wanted.

And Thaddeus.

She remembered fighting alongside him on the battlefield, their lives hanging in the balance.

She remembered the first time she saw him again at her grandfather’s side and how she couldn’t take her eyes off him.

She remembered Thaddeus pushing the divorce papers towards her, forcing her to leave with his cold and resolute demeanor.

Suddenly, a piercing pain erupted from her heart, spreading throughout her entire body.

had been drowning. Hot sweat and cold rain alternated,

closed her eyes and

about that bastard, if it wasn’t for the memory of the

soon as she woke up, Evadne

washed up somewhere by the mud, lying

on a not–so–thick branch, her body was half–buried in the mud, and she was almost

luck, bad

I die? What about my brothers?” Since God gave her a chance to live, it meant

Crack!

her head made

speak. She didn’t even dare to breathe, fearing that if she took one more

hands, then found two

onto the rocks, the branch

fell into the deep cliff

about to jump out of her throat!

be scared. She could only try her best to climb

this moment, night had fallen and the storm was

rain hit her eyes, blurring her vision, and her hands were red from the

only thing that kept her climbing was her strong will and desire to

was young, Aviana often accompanied her to box, ride horses, and shoot arrows. Climbing

was

to reach the top of the mountain, a strong vibration came

pebbles started to roll down, another

donate so much money and accumulate so much virtue every year, and this is how you

Evadne’s foot fell, and she was suspended In

“No! Help!”

horror, a sense of

the edge of the cliff, and what awaited her was a hopeless

slipped from the corner of Evadne’s eye, and she

back from the brink of death. Feeling her

as the stars, her heartbeat and breath seemed

“Thaddeus?”

a dream?

heart pounded uncontrollably

be scared!

gaze fell on her pale face. Fear, panic, joy, heartache, all emotions

pouring down his face, his left hand clinging to the muddy ground, his right hand holding hers, his knuckles white and trembling

sinking, sliding downwards, knowing that the danger was not

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