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 finally received

he rarely made birthday

push the cake to me, letting me

wish Alex and Emma will stay

nothing in this world he needed

he wanted me to

that rental apartment

even the angle of

on the table, sounds of cooking from the

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lean against the

said: “One more dish, then

a good cook, just better than

dish while he watched

years, now tinged with

always know how to cook?”

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

cooking actually isn’t very good.”

you always ate

of us turning on lights, sitting in a corner of the

go,” I

was pretense these years.”

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