Love's Bitter Edge (Eva and Leonard)

Chapter 365

Chapter 365 I Don't Want It

I was calm, even cold and distant, when I said what I said. It would've been a lie to say that I didn't harbor any resentment. So many things had happened. How could I not hate Leonard?

Now that it had come to this, however, it was pointless to hate anyone. I knew the sorry state I was in. After all, I had grown extremely weak in a short few days. If I actually relapsed for the third time, then nothing could save me. When one was at death's door, one tended to speak kind and truthful words. So, I bit my tongue and shoved every resentful word down deep.

"That's it between us, Leonard"

"S-Stop speaking, Eva. I beg you, stop. Leonard clutched his head and went down on his imees, falling apart by over and over, telling me that he should never have neglected to investigate everything and that he should've be f my bed. He apologized to me

I felt a lump in my throat, and my heart was aching so much that it was unbearable. I clutched my chest and valiantly tought back tears.

a good guy. You carried Grandma on your back, and that's why you could no longer carry me or

fault. However, I didn't have any idea how I should've

an orphan. She and Dad never stopped us from being together. They even thought he was kind of a stand-up

was that the real reason when all was said and done? I could just imagine how helpless and disheartened Leonard felt back then. That was why he hated me so much that he

on it when I was back in the country. Then, both of us kept tormenting each other the whole time. If I hadn't gone overseas, he might've kept helping the Green family. There could've still been hope for them too. If one of the Greens had run

way to change the past. All of these

All I could hear was Leonard's

Jill and Astrid were

your fault. I was wrong too. I shouldn't have distrusted you. The blame isn't yours to bear alone. Both of us made mistakes. So, let's stop resenting each other and close this chapter of our

so many years. It was impossible for me to thoroughly forget about Leonard. However, parting ways was the far more appropriate outcome. I had no idea which part of my sentence triggered Leonard. He suddenly hugged me tightly like a

reserved a place for me in your heart." Leonard hugged

Eva is no longer your