Loved You Once But He's My Forever

Chapter 516 New Year Zoey shot Harlan an annoyed look. "What are you doing here?"

He looked a little travel-worn as if he had just rushed over from somewhere far away. But at least he seemed better than the last time I saw him, when he was stuck in a cast.

I let out a small sigh of relief. After all, he had gotten hurt because of us.

If he had died in that accident, I would never have forgiven myself.

I had no idea how things were progressing between him and Zoey, but one thing was certain he still had feelings for her.

You could always tell when a man was truly in love.

Just like now-his eyes, his entire world, were only filled with Zoey.

In his hand wasn't his usual briefcase, but a food container. "Didn't you say you love my staff's cooking? I asked him to make something for you before I came. I kept it warm on the way-it should still be hot. Try it."

Zoey's retort caught in her throat. "Huh? Oh. Fine."

Then, Harlan turned to Carter. "I heard Chloe made it back alive. Where is she? I even brought something she likes."

He really had to pick that topic, didn't he?

Zoey shot him a warning glance, but Harlan just frowned. "What's wrong with your eye? Got dust in it? Want me to blow it out?"

Without another word, she grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out of the room.

I turned to Carter. "He didn't mean anything by it. Don't let it bother you."

"I'm fine."

But he wasn't fine. The weight of everything still lingered in his gaze, heavy and unresolved. I knew what was tormenting him-me, but I had no way to fix it.

I wanted to return to my body, but something invisible, something I couldn't understand, kept me from getting close.

I didn't know why. Carter grew quieter and quieter.

accounts, I was alive. But I wouldn't wake up. The doctors had made their final diagnosis-I was in a vegetative

tried everything to bring me

rely on the flickering flame and our children's

time passed, the babies' vision improved. At first, they could only see me within a short distance. But now, they

me as something otherworldly. Wherever I moved, their tiny eyes followed,

would chuckle. "Look at them. It's like an invisible

She had no idea.

that what the babies

If I could stay with them like this forever, maybe

then I worried... What would happen when they grew

would they explain to others that they had a mother

an eye. The

winter. Christmas came again, and with it, the reminder of

took care of me every single day. The nurses whispered about how they had never seen a man

stood beside them, nodding along. "I know,

the time, I never left his

back to the Bolton Residence,

He had prepared a gift for the

he listened to

Very good. Everett and Everly...

saw it. The way he staggered as he left as

My death anniversary

funerals when I was alive. And now, as a spirit, I was attending

A once-in-a-lifetime experience.

twins to visit my

sat a carefully wrapped basket of hydrangeas, covered

finally remembered that hydrangeas were my favorite. But wasn't it a little

The photo etched into it would always show me

my own face. It was me, and yet

at the same

to live," Carter murmured. "What

handed the children to Damian, then knelt down to carefully clean

placed a bouquet of red roses before