Love Coming from the Least Expected

There was no shattering of glasses. Instead, there was a deep thud and Monica’s sharp cry of pain. The cup must have hit her.

“Please, Ms. Tanner. Could you please consider leaving Christopher alone? You know how guilty he will feel if he finds out about this,” she uttered.

out!” I howled at her

by us. Just went we managed to break

stood up and apologized seriously, “Forgive me. All I could think of was Chris. I really shouldn’t have said such things. I should’ve thought about you too. Just forget everything I said. I shouldn’t have come

before long she turned around and locked her gaze on me. “Perhaps he might think you died on the seas. That would be better for him. At least

again in the cold room, separated from the warmth of the outside world. I felt so cynical about life all of a sudden. A voice in my heart told me that I should have

I loved and died there and then. I would not need to go through the agony of facing my own death or think about how Christopher would take it if

survived. I was delighted when I knew both of us had made it out alive, but I was quickly faced with

felt worse than the other episodes I had earlier, I did not

as I lay in my bed. Just when I was feeling better, Darius came in and brought me some candies. At the sight of them, my eyes lit up briefly. I did not have a habit of eating lollipops when I was a kid, and even after I grew up, I did

mom had a sweet tooth; she used to love lollipops. I had a try, savoring the sweetness on my tongue, but somehow, it had a slight taste of bitterness to me. It was probably because I was too