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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

was no longer in the room. Kind-hearted Auntie Helen had always tried to reconcile the two, thinking their fights were just minor

one and only Mrs. Sterling, unaware of her own

in the spacious mansion. It was only when Auntie Helen left that Aveline realized the emptiness of the house, just

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

her face,

remained calm as she

break free from this

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father owes you,

life. She could see Alexander's pain and

her to die. From

loved one and the child he had always

would still be the unattainable legend

be perfect, except

How wonderful.

and suddenly felt the shackles that had bound her

Alexander didn't come back, and the Li

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