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 I finally received

how he rarely made

cake to me, letting me wish instead. I’d usually announce

wish Alex and Emma will stay together forever, never

without desires – nothing in this world he needed to

he wanted me

entered that rental apartment

unchanged, even the angle of sunlight falling the same way.

the table, sounds of

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lean against

“One more dish, then

actually a good cook, just better

while he

years,

to cook?” I asked a long–standing

my childhood nanny – taught me. When I

cooking actually isn’t

you always ate

neither of us turning on lights, sitting in

should go,” I said.

not everything was pretense these

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