No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 640

She caught me off guard with her question; I hadn't dared to entertain the thought.

After all, I had watched him collapse in front of me, heard the doctors announce the surgery's failure, and held his ashes in my hands...

I fantasized about his return, but that was only in the confines of my dreams.

I knew life wasn't like novels or movies. Ernest was gone, and no matter how much I wished otherwise, it was the truth.

"I do wish he hadn't died," I murmured, my voice heavy with sorrow.

"If you've accepted his absence, why come asking me all this?" Yolande shot back.

I looked at her, feeling something amiss. "It's the reaction of the Collins family, your calm demeanor; it's all wrong," I pointed out, convinced of Yolande's love for Ernest. Her lack of visible grief didn't sit right with me. "I am grieving. Who said I wasn't?" Yolande admitted openly. "But all the tears in the world won't bring him back."

A hard truth, one I used to console myself as well.

"Is there anything else that seems off to you?" she inquired.

anymore. Sometimes feelings can deceive, and

into her bag, pulled out a note, and slid it across to me. "This is

"What's this?"

and see," she urged with

explained, "The ring was ready a long time ago. The shop called Ernest multiple times but couldn't

en

show me this now? It seems unnecessary to upset me further," I said, my tone

laugh carried a

I have for it? That ring was chosen for you from the start was just there to make the selection process seem believable, to throw others off the scent. If you

inside bande

both of your initials."

with

lips. "It must've hurt, knowing he and I were selecting a

That news had felt like a thousand needles to

that trouble, staged an entire drama to protect you. He succeeded,

heavy as I gazed at the ring order,

there. The design is quite unique," Yolande commented, her attention shifting to