My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

Chapter 1160

[The Evans Family]

Maximus had resigned himself to the fact that his children were slowly leaving home. Maybe Paul wouldn't come back, but Maurice-he was still a kid and trying to process everything that had happened with Lucius and Amanda. Time away was good to distract him.

Knowing that Lucius preferred to live with the Moriarty family broke Maximus's heart. He was his father-they were his family-but Lucius chose that serious, grumpy man instead. Maximus couldn't understand how Moriarty had become so important in his son's life.

Angela was different. She was a good woman, and honestly, she had probably acted more like a parent than the real ones ever did. But Moriarty? How had he managed it? How did he make Lucius feel more comfortable with him than with his own family?

Maximus regretted all the time he'd been absent. He mourned the lost years with his eldest son because now, in Lucius's most vulnerable moment, he'd chosen another family over them.

With Paul and Maurice in Paris and Lucius heading to Hesperia, only Laura, Adele, and Adrian were left. They had postponed their wedding because Laura chose to wait, out of respect for Amanda's memory and for her brother, who was now mourning and handling the weight of being a single parent.

She couldn't begin to imagine how deep her brother's pain was, but she knew she couldn't go around saying, "I'm happy," while watching him pick up the pieces of what once was.

didn't pressure her to make their relationship

that they should move in together. Eventually, when things were better, they could think about the dream wedding she once envisioned. For now, the best thing was to live together and

to Maximus and explained it to him. He understood and agreed, knowing what surrounded that decision. He knew how close Laura and Lucius were, and whether he

move into the house where Maximus had spent his childhood, where he had lived with Mary, and

Magnus' huge house. Now it was just Diana, Vincent, and him, since Magnus and Matthew had decided to spend some time in the

that investment, and those two business lovers were happy to do it. They hadn't said when-or if-they were coming back. All anyone knew was that they were

only the dead silence of its hallways-until his

awake?" Maximus asked

rocking chair with the baby in her arms. "How are you?"

trying

a real 'fine'..." Diana said, watching

left today..." he said, as if the words hurt to say

Diana asked, already