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.

this turn was

turning back between

Helen was no longer in the room. Kind–hearted Auntie Helen had always tried to reconcile the two, thinking their

her eyes, Aveline was the one and only Mrs. Sterling, unaware of her

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

turned dark outside, and there was a pot of soup that Auntie

her face, making

as she took one sip after

to break free from this exhausting game.

Chapter 39

my father owes you, and I will repay you.

instead enjoy the remaining

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.

loved one and the

unattainable legend in

be perfect, except

How wonderful.

felt the shackles that had bound her

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

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