Chapter 898

Keith lay sprawled on the rooftop, arms wide open as he gazed up at the sky, letting the rain wash over him. His tears had long since blurred his vision, mixing with the rain that slid down his cheeks.

He wasn't sure if it was exhaustion from crying or the weariness of his heart, but suddenly, he yearned for rest. Slowly, he closed his eyes, and in that moment of darkness, he questioned the heavens,

"God, are you satisfied seeing me in so much pain?!"

"God, what did I do in my past life to deserve this agony?!"

Time passed indistinctly until Keith's phone began to ring.

It rang incessantly, but Keith ignored it.

Only when the unique ringtone of his darling child echoed did he slowly open his eyes and took a deep breath before sitting up.

Brushing the rain from his face, he pulled out his phone and answered, "Hello?"

His voice was hoarse, trembling, like a child who had been wronged receiving a call from their parents.

In a sweet, childlike voice, his baby asked,

raining, isn't it? A big, big rain. Did you remember to bring

perhaps the only person in this world who still cared and

who had cared for him, who had loved him, had all left him

or fortunate that there was

voice almost a whisper, "Daddy isn't

the doctor will have to give Daddy a shot and make him take very, very bitter medicine. So Daddy, don't get wet, you have to be

chuckled, tears welling up again, "Okay,

got up and obediently

not to get

to

had to be good, to listen to his child, to cherish

that sweet, childlike

when will you come back? I want to have dinner with you. Tamsin made lots of yummy food, and even your favorite dish." "...Daddy

kiss kiss." The little girl blew Keith a kiss through the

away his tears, and sat alone in the

expression shifted from pain to guilt, and

that the time Kendrick had left him to be chased by wild beasts, witnessing a stranger being devoured by wolves, seeing his sister humiliated to death,

his mother's pain, was just a twisted way to

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