My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

Chapter 0690

“Peter… I… I don’t know what to say… I’m sorry! Please forgive me! I was a selfish bastard… I never thought about you, never thought about how you felt…” Maximus said, his voice breaking.

“Maximus, that was years ago–25 years, to be exact. There’s no point worrying about something that happened so long ago.”

“I feel guilty, brother, for everything I caused you because of my damn arrogance. If I hadn’t crossed paths with Mary, you might have lived your story with her. Now, all you can do is watch her story with Marcus from the sidelines.”

“Stop with the nonsense and melodrama, Maximus. I’ve told you I’ll always love Mary, but that chapter of my life -while it’ll always be there and never really go away–is over. Now, I have someone else to think about.”

“Celeste…?”

“Yes… It’s been years since I’ve felt this way. Have you ever looked at someone and just known it’s them? Like, something in them tells you that you don’t need to look at anyone else?”

“Yes…”

“Diana, right?”

“Yes…”

it’s the same with Celeste for me. I don’t know if I can say I love her, and yeah, there are bad days when I doubt everything–when I even doubt my sanity–but ever since I met her, I haven’t wanted to stay away from her.”

still so

in my head, I still feel like I need to protect her, especially now that Marcus’s in

you going to leave Marcus

fact, I’d bet that if

me… Who is this

until recently. From what Magnus told me, the Moriartys were close friends of the Bartzs, but they distanced themselves from the family because of their connection to our family and our hidden dealings. That cost them

Anthony Moriarty, Vincent’s

and especially not Marcus, will ever be able to finally

expose any of them, all the dirt around us will come to light. In your case, you’ll just get splashed, and with some effort, you might come out of it okay. But Marcus and I? We’d spend our last years in