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 and smiled easily.

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

Very well.

covered everything I needed, and I had enough savings

remind me that I

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future.I’ll make

knew that on the day I left, Pax came looking

he had stood in the apartment we once

he should have done a long time ago, the moment he cut ties with her for good.

that, the Brown family had

didn’t care.It was done.

morning, he rushed

hurried, the words already forming on

it’s over. It’s all

nothing stopping us now.”

that five minutes before he arrived, I had already

apartment door was still broken from the night he kicked it

hinges groaned, the frame shuddering beneath

stepped inside, the words on the tip of

person standing there

different girl,the new

Berlin.

flicker of confusion crossing her

she asked hesitantly. “I thought you left the

a

for the first time in his life he was

her shoulders, his fingers

“Where is she?”

for two

told anyone. No one knew.

hands were already fumbling for his phone, his fingers flying

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