Chapter 40

“No, it really is her,” I said faintly.

Lilac had supposedly returned home with her mother after several days. She was standing under a small klosk by the roadside. She held a large umbrella above her as the rainwater splattered her short skirt, making her curves all the more apparent.

Lilac looked like a fake flower sprouting in the rain.

She placed her hands near her mouth again before yelling. “Felix!”

Felix saw her this time. Light glowed in his dark eyes. He ran out into the rain like an excited child, his white sneakers splashing in the dirty rainwater. “You’re back, Lili.”

Felix ran over and held Lilac in his arms. She giggled happily.

I stood there in the torrential rain, not even noticing that my umbrella was off–kilter. My heart felt numb.

Felix always managed to hurt me without so much as lifting a finger.

wind and rain swirled around me cruelly. My heart was colder than the weather

to one another in the rain. Lilac giggled again and nuzzled into

was too sweet, and her embrace too alluring. Felix

tender little Lilac in the rain and kissing her was quite

the sound of my heart

they ran in the rain, leaving me behind. Lilac turned around and yelled

supposed to be a caring phrase, yet

left, leaving only me alone in

above me. I stood there in the street and

as the pain in the deepest corners

love that I

nearly swallow me whole. Water began pooling on the streets. Lightning flashed ahead from time to time, my

know from the start that Felix wasn’t yours? He never

are so many other

up out of desperation?” I asked myself again and again, yet my heart hurt

not with

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