Chapter 19

Autumn is creeping in Berlin.

The plane trees lining the streets fade to golden, their leaves curling at the edges before the wind picks up – they twirl, flutter, swirl, and slowly and obediently descend.

They fall one layer after another onto the cobblestone streets, crunching gently underfoot.

The seasons change, just like life.

I adapted faster than I expected.

The transition was almost effortless.

The enrollment process was smooth. I became part of the professor’s research lab, integrating into the rhythm of early mornings and late nights, the meticulous data collection, and the sterile smell of the lab.

For the first six months, I shadowed senior researchers – observing, learning, making mistakes.

By the end of the year, I had become a mentor myself.

“Interesting, isn’t it?” my professor mused one afternoon, leaning back in his chair and browsing a set of reports.

“You didn’t come after graduation, you bet you regretted it.”

I laughed.

Regret?How could I regret it?

At that time, I never hesitated.

I just don’t have the money.

That’s the only thing holding me back.

Upon hearing this, one of the senior fellows next to me the one who mentored me when I first joined–looked at me

and a look of elusiveness flashed across his face.

expression

at me like that,” I joked. “I’m doing well now, aren’t I?”

Very well.

I needed, and I had enough savings

I made the

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the future.I’ll make

on the day I

stood in the apartment we once shared, expecting to

so far as to bring Nina’s parents, calling them as witnesses to something he should

that, the Brown family had paid

Pax didn’t care.It was done.

rushed to

heartbeat hammered against his ribs, his steps hurried, the words already forming on his

It’s all been taken

stopping

didn’t know that five minutes before he

still broken from the

the hinges groaned, the frame shuddering

words on the tip of his tongue,and then froze.

person standing there wasn’t

different girl,the new

Berlin.

him, startled, a flicker of confusion crossing her face before recognition settled

“I thought you left the country

words landed like a

in his life he was panicked.

his fingers tightening, his

“Where is she?”

to Norway isn’t for two more

hadn’t told anyone.

hands were already fumbling for his phone, his fingers flying

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