Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Chapter 248

Chapter 248

I watched the man walk away, standing in the cold wind that seemed to cut through me. Wrapping my thin shawl tighter, I continued walking, my heels clicking softly against the pavement.

The streetlights flickered, casting an orange glow that stretched my shadow behind me, a lonely figure against the darkening night.

cashmere carpet were slow,

It wasn't far to my place, and when I finally got home, I first kicked off the shoes that had been digging into my feet. My steps on the cashmere my teet aching, leaving faint spots of blood that dotted the soft surface like tiny blossoms.

tused alcohol and cotton swabs to clean the wound with an antiseptic solution. Gritting my teeth, I cleaned the wounds, biting back the sting before finally covering the worst of it with a bandage.

My eyelids felt impossibly heavy. I couldn't right the exhaustion any longer, and soon, I let my eyes drift shut.

I saw het-Grandma, walking

wanted so badly to retum to that time when everything was simple, when she was healthy, when she was by my side, malding everything

gentle fog swept away by

like a fleeting gift from the heavens, one brief moment to see her again before the cruel reality

face damp with tears. My swollen eyes stung,

Losing the person closest to me felt like an endless rainstorm had settled over my heart, one that would never clear, drowning me in

my face, staring at the puffy, red eyes in the

nothing I could do to

pulling me back into the present. Wincing from the

on these calls to keep our connection alive. "Eve, did you miss me?" Lyla's voice came through

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