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

turning

went out again, Auntie Helen was no longer in the room. Kind–hearted Auntie Helen

only Mrs. Sterling,

didn’t feel lonely in the spacious mansion. It was only when Auntie Helen left that Aveline realized the emptiness of the house, just like her

soup that Auntie Helen had cooked in the kitchen. Aveline

rising steam blurred her face, making it even more

remained calm as she

found a way to break free from this exhausting

Chapter 39

you, and

not to undergo chemotherapy anymore and instead enjoy

see Alexander’s pain and conflict. Once she died, he wouldn’t have to be trapped in constant turmoil and hatred.

her to die. From now

life.

own loved one and the child he had

still be the unattainable legend

would be perfect, except

How wonderful.

the shackles that had bound her

Alexander didn’t come back, and the Li

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