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

he

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

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

– nothing in this world he needed to wish for.

couldn’t guess what he wanted me to

entered that rental

even the angle of sunlight falling the same

table, sounds of cooking

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led me to lean against

turning, just like before, he said: “One more dish, then

actually a good cook, just better than

dish while he watched without

ordinary day from those years, now

you always know how to cook?” I

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

actually isn’t very

you always ate

lights, sitting in a corner of the

go,” I said.

not everything was

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