My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

Chapter 0829

“I was thinking we could grab some vanilla ice cream and sit somewhere to talk. Sound good?”

“Perfect.”

We stopped by an ice cream shop and bought a liter each.

As expected, she devoured hers.

I watched her for a moment before taking a deep breath.

“Mary… there’s something I want to talk to you about.”

She looked up, concerned. “What is it?”

“I know we’re getting married soon, and Serene will have my last name. But I’ve been thinking a lot about what I proposed to you….”

“What do you mean?”

“About being Serenity’s father.”

She froze, her face unreadable. “Are you… backing out?”

“No! How could you even think that?”

“Then why bring it up?”

I hesitated. “Because today, I had a terrible nightmare…”

“What did you dream?”

“That I died.”

She gasped. “What?!”

“Yeah… It felt so real. Everything about it–it was like living a normal day, but it ended with me dying. It left me with this awful feeling, Mary. That’s why I needed to talk to you.”

scaring me, Peter…”

than you

“Why?”

if something happens to me, you and Serenity are my responsibility. Do you really think I could just

it was just

But it felt

sighed, running a hand

has been weighing on me all day. If I ever died. I’d want you to move on. I’d want you to keep living, to surround

swallowed hard, her grip tightening around her

Chapter 0820

+25 BONUS

to reach your goals, to live your life to the fullest. And now that we know we’re having a girl, we need to make sure that every choice we make is to help her become strong–strong enough to go after whatever

hesitated, then added carefully,

We

has to find out,

deserves to know. When our daughter is born, she needs to know who her real father is. You can’t take that right away from

the one who didn’t want

I said. But at least give him the choice. If he wants nothing to do with her,

torn. “I don’t know… Besides, Maximus is about to marry Alexia, and that woman

also know she’s pregnant with

at

take responsibility for all his

thinking… maybe we should move back to

Her eyes widened.

hadn’t expected

to buy a house–a small

and Serenity to go to Solaria–the place

she asked in

there. It would be good for us. You’d be home. And Serene could

me like I had

worrying me today.

at her

when Serenity is born, it might feel like

a curl behind her