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.

saw his expression

that,” I joked.

Very well.

I needed, and

to remind me that I

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in the future.I’ll make more.

that on the day I left, Pax came

apartment we once shared, expecting to

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

Brown family

didn’t care.It

he rushed to

against his ribs, his steps hurried, the words already forming

it’s over. It’s all been

nothing stopping us

what he didn’t know that five minutes before he arrived, I had

was still broken from the night he kicked it

groaned, the

words on the

there wasn’t

different girl,the new tenant.

Berlin.

a flicker of confusion crossing her face

asked hesitantly. “I thought you

words landed like a punch to the

in his life he was panicked.

grabbed her shoulders, his fingers

“Where is she?”

flight to Norway isn’t for two more days.

hadn’t told anyone. No one

hands were already fumbling for his phone, his

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