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.

knew that this turn

no turning back between them.

Auntie Helen

only Mrs. Sterling, unaware of her own

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 house, just like her life, tasteless and dull.

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

rising steam blurred her face, making

expression remained calm as she

found a way to break free from

Chapter 39

my father owes you, and

decided not to undergo chemotherapy anymore and instead enjoy the remaining days of her

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

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

life.

have his own loved one and

still be the unattainable legend in City A.

would be perfect, except for

How wonderful.

felt the shackles that had bound her

and the Li Mansion

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