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?

the world, when

remembered those years, how he

cake to me, letting me

will stay together forever, never apart.”

without desires – nothing in this

he wanted me to

that rental

the angle of sunlight falling the same

table, sounds of

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led me to lean against the doorframe,

like before, he said: “One more dish, then we can eat.”

actually a good cook,

each dish while he watched without

years, now tinged with farewell’s finality.

cook?” I asked a long–standing question.

When

cooking actually isn’t

always ate

darkened, neither of us turning on lights,

go,”

everything was

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