No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 213



"Felicia, thank you for loving my brother, for accepting him!"

As Susie said this, she raised her hands, offering me a mug of tea with utmost respect, her eyes brimming with tears.

In that moment, a wave of emotion hit me, too.

But I couldn't help but smile. "Listen to you, talking as if your brother was the last man on earth."

Susie pouted, and I took the mug from her, taking a sip.

The clear, floral fragrance of the tea enveloped my taste buds, unlike anything I had ever experienced before.

It was like morning dew, a divine elixir, extraordinary in every sense.

"Felicia, my brother put off dating because of me. He was worried his future wife wouldn't treat me well, would disdain me..." Susie's voice trailed off.

I knew why she suddenly stopped.

She was afraid Ernest hadn't told me about her illness, afraid that knowing she was sick, I would look down on Ernest.

"Look down on you because of your health? Do I look like someone that shallow to you?" With those words,

did my

trailed off as I looked around and shook my

anything related to her brother, so I continued, "Then to take you back with me. But seeing your Eden here, I feel I have

had a place for her, protected from the elements, what kind of life would that

her here, not

mountains and waters, was the

taking me, Felicia, I'll go,"

aback.

answer, quietly

torn. She cherished her freedom here, yet part of her longed

dilemma,

not greed but instinct, a desire for the

meant she

go e existence,

Perhaps the

her

want to get better, to stop my

it was easier