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?

autumn painted the world, when

years, how he rarely made birthday

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

“I wish Alex and Emma will stay together forever, never apart.”

– nothing in this world he

couldn’t guess what he wanted me to

that rental

of sunlight falling the

on the table, sounds of

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memory led me to lean against the doorframe,

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

a good cook, just

tried each dish while he watched

day from those years, now tinged with farewell’s

you always know how to cook?” I asked a

– taught me. When I told her I

cooking actually isn’t

you always

neither of us turning on lights, sitting in a corner

should go,” I said.

not everything was pretense

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