Chapter 39

Chapter 39

Tears streamed down Aveline’s cheeks. She knew that she and Alexander could never go back to the way

things were.

He betrayed her and harmed the Blackwood family. And the Blackwood family owed his sister a life as

well.

Those accounts were impossible to reconcile, like a tangled mess of yarn that only grew tighter the more. you tried to unravel it. The suffocating feeling would eventually lead them to their death.

Alexander held her face in his hands, his thumb wiping away the tears on her cheeks. “Aveline, don’t love me, hate me instead. I betrayed you, I harmed our child, and there’s no turning back for me.”

She felt his inner turmoil, his rare tenderness, like a glimpse of green emerging from an iceberg.

But soon, this new green was destroyed by another storm.

Meseur

Alexander left the leaving Aveline with his back view.

that this turn was their farewell.

no turning

in the room. Kind–hearted Auntie Helen

and only Mrs. Sterling, unaware of

smiled bitterly. With Auntie Helen’s company, she didn’t feel lonely in the spacious mansion. It was only when Auntie Helen left that Aveline realized the emptiness of the

was a pot of soup that Auntie Helen had cooked

rising steam blurred her face, making

calm as she took one sip after

to break free

Chapter 39

you, and I

not to undergo chemotherapy anymore and instead enjoy

Alexander’s pain and conflict. Once she died, he wouldn’t have to

out that this dead end only required her to die. From

life.

and the child

be the unattainable legend in City A.

except for her absence.

How wonderful.

suddenly felt the

night, Alexander didn’t come back, and the Li Mansion fell

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