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?

world, when I

those years, how he rarely made birthday wishes.

always push the cake to me, letting me wish instead. I’d usually announce my wish

wish Alex and Emma will stay together

without desires – nothing in this world he needed to wish

what he wanted

entered that rental

even the angle of sunlight falling the

table, sounds of cooking from the

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lean against the

he said: “One more dish, then we

actually a good cook, just

while he watched

ordinary day from those years, now tinged with farewell’s

to cook?” I asked a

– taught me. When I told her I wanted to learn cooking, she felt my forehead

actually isn’t very

always ate happily.”

turning on lights, sitting in a corner of the

go,” I

was pretense these years.”

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