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

he rarely made birthday wishes.

to me, letting me

and Emma will stay together forever, never apart.”

nothing in this

guess what he wanted me to fulfill.

I entered that rental apartment again.

the angle of sunlight falling the same way.

table, sounds of cooking from the kitchen.

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led me to lean against

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

actually a good cook, just

each dish while

those years, now tinged with farewell’s

cook?” I

childhood nanny – taught me. When I told her I wanted to learn

isn’t

always ate happily.”

lights, sitting

should go,” I said.

not everything was

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