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 no turning back between them.

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

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

company, she didn’t feel lonely in the spacious mansion. It was only when

there was a pot of soup that Auntie Helen had cooked in the kitchen. Aveline

rising steam blurred her face, making it even more hazy.

she took one sip

to break

Chapter 39

owes you, and I will repay you.

anymore and instead enjoy the remaining

she died, he wouldn’t have to be trapped in constant turmoil and hatred.

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

life.

own loved one and the child he had always hoped

unattainable

would be perfect, except for

How wonderful.

suddenly felt the

come back, and the Li Mansion fell into a deathly silence.

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