Chapter 109

It was precisely because Soren was such a promising, exceptionally brilliant young man that he had been allowed to become the leader of a weapons manufacturing company

Silence fell over us, filled with unspoken thoughts.

I leaned against the railing, gazing into the night, as memories resurfaced in my mind.

Regret washed over me.

If we hadn’t missed each other back then, at university… would things have been different now?

No. Maybe not. I had been too blinded by love to truly see Edward for who he was. I didn’t even know why I loved him so much.

I discovered his illness when we first started dating. Any other girl with a clear sense of logic would have broken up with him right then.

was optimistic, determined,

learned that our blood types were the same, I thought it must be fate. Everything seemed to tell me that we were meant to fight his illness together–a team, a couple, capable of weathering any storm.

thought made me feel even nobler. It made my love for him feel more elevated.

to him regularly. How I began sacrificing so much

thinking about?” Soren asked

saw him leaning on the

would admit to regretting my relationship with Edward in front of him, so I replied, “I was just thinking… There’s no way I would have imagined the person I saved from drowning was a guy. You must’ve been about 11 or 12 at the time, but you kind of

wasn’t I? A bit on the delicate side? That didn’t stop me from getting into

his troop. He wanted to instill some discipline in me, and he thought

I said, finally realizing, studying his impressive

guess so. I grew larger and taller around that time. Mom always said I looked like a different person every time

one, am glad you were a scrawny kid back then. How else was I going to pull

reached about 5’4“. But an early growth spurt had limited my later growth, so In the end, I stopped at about 5’7“. Not

wasn’t until I saw you at the National Academy that I realized you were younger than

made me laugh out loud. “Were you about to

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