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?

painted the world, when

those years, how he rarely

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

wish Alex and Emma will stay together forever, never

desires – nothing in

couldn’t guess what he

that rental

unchanged, even the angle of sunlight falling the

on the table, sounds of cooking from

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to lean

just like before, he said: “One more dish,

actually a good cook, just better than me.

while

those years, now tinged with farewell’s

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

me. When I told

actually isn’t very good.”

always ate

neither of us turning on lights, sitting in a corner

go,” I said.

was

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