The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 15

I returned to the Goma refugee camp and reunited with Joseph’s colleagues.

Now, Doctors Without Borders had returned. His former partner, Adam, had been promoted to coordinator for the entire Goma project.

The moment we saw each other, no words were spoken, but tears flowed uncontrollably.

After crying together for half an hour, I told him I had come back to search for Joseph.

He led me to the warehouse, where some of Joseph’s belongings were still there.

“We evacuated in a hurry, and many things were left unorganized,” Adam explained.

Inside a box, I found a few scattered items: a paper card, a packet of flower seeds, a set of keys, several medical books, a stethoscope…

These little things, so closely tied to him, transported me back to three years ago.

I could almost hear his voice, “You’re here!”

I remembered walking into his dorm one afternoon, seeing him sitting on a chair, reading a book,

casually twirling a pen.

Adam, too, seemed melancholy.

“These things should have been dealt with long ago, but I thought maybe one day you’d return to sort

them out for him, so I kept them.

“I never expected that day would come.”

I accepted the items solemnly.

“Adam, thank you.

“I’m the one who came too late.”

Later, I told him I still wanted to find out the whereabouts of the children from that time.

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an eye out, though he cautioned me not to get my hopes

many years.

was settled, I returned to

then I received a message from

said Jackson had come to find me.

on the wedding

were furious.

searched everywhere for

my colleagues, he found out I had gone to the Democratic Republic of the

Congo.

at the hospital and

unable to make sense of it.

loved, then where did I

wanting to make things difficult for my colleagues, I

my breath caught in my

he

smoke swirling in the

littered

“Zoey??”

it really

in disbelief,

really

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face

because of a

out of your

a moment, I regretted contacting him at

I saw the large drops

play with your life like this!!

can you make me worry so much??!”

I felt

“Worry about me?

your parents, and I used you as a substitute to ease my loneliness. There was no real affection…”

cutting me off.

with real affection!!