The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 69

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  • 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 up

  • many years.

  • everything was settled, I returned

  • a message from my

  • come to find

  • didn’t show up on the wedding day.

  • parents were

  • everywhere

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

  • Congo.

  • believe it, causing a scene at the hospital and almost being taken away by the police.

  • sighed, unable to make sense of

  • loved, then where did I stand in

  • things difficult for my colleagues, I decided to video call Jackson.

  • as the call connected, my breath caught in my

  • he looked

  • smoke swirling in the air.

  • floor was littered with empty bottles.

  • “Zoey??”

  • it really you?”

  • in disbelief, rubbing

  • You really are

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  • his face

  • to Africa just because of

  • out of your

  • for a moment, I regretted contacting him at all.

  • when I saw the large drops of liquid falling

  • your

  • you make me worry

  • felt

  • “Worry about me?

  • to placate your parents, and I used you as a substitute to ease my loneliness. There was

  • cutting me off.

  • hell with

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