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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.

Aveline knew that this turn was their farewell.

turning back between

Kind-hearted Auntie Helen had always tried to reconcile the two,

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

smiled bitterly. With Auntie Helen's company, she didn't feel lonely in the spacious mansion. It was only when Auntie Helen

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

steam blurred her face, making

as she took

found a way to break free from this exhausting

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my father owes you, and I

to undergo chemotherapy anymore and instead enjoy the remaining days of her life. She could see Alexander's pain and conflict.

to die. From now on, Alexander would have a better

loved one and the child

be the unattainable

perfect, except

How wonderful.

the shackles that

night, Alexander didn't come back, and the

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