Chapter 14

I didn’t see Alex for a long time after that.

But that promised wish remained like an invisible thread, always connecting us.

He didn’t come to claim it, I didn’t fulfill it – as if keeping this connection meant there could still be an

outcome.

During this waiting period, I met with Victoria once.

Surprisingly, she had divorced.

“Unexpected, right?” She sat across from me, expression mild. “I never doubted he loved me. But his love for me didn’t stop him from loving others.”

“Everyone advised me to turn a blind eye, saying keeping power was what mattered.”

“Those affairs were just men’s entertainment, they said. Every man in that circle has one or two.”

“But I, Victoria Bennett, couldn’t do it. I couldn’t tolerate it. I couldn’t have even a grain of sand in my eye.”

She said she’d taken half the assets, enough for a comfortable life.

But in that world, how could someone who hadn’t truly loved be so intolerant of imperfection?

until autumn painted the world, when I finally received Alex’s

those years, how he rarely made birthday wishes.

letting me wish instead. I’d usually announce my wish loudly.

Emma will stay together forever, never apart.”

nothing in this world he needed to wish

he wanted

entered that rental apartment

of sunlight falling the same way.

of cooking from the

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to lean against the doorframe, watching

before, he said: “One more

actually a good cook, just better

dish while he watched

years, now tinged

know how to cook?” I asked a long–standing

Thompson – my childhood nanny – taught me. When I told

cooking actually isn’t

you always ate happily.”

lights, sitting in a

should go,” I

everything was pretense

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