They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 629

Chapter 629: We All Knew

Nothing she could say would stop him from taking care of her.

"There’s something I... I need to tell you," Nnenna began, her words slow and raw.

"Where’s Arthur?" she asked without turning.

"I’m here," Arthur’s voice answered from right behind her, calm, flat, a guard at her back.

"We should go inside first," Arthur suggested.

"No." Nnenna’s reply was sharp, sudden. "I can’t keep carrying this."

"Carrying what?" Carl asked, voice low and steady, trying to read her through the rain.

Nnenna swallowed hard, the words dragging through her. "What happened at the cliff..." she started.

"That’s in the past," Arthur interrupted, the way he always tried to close a wound before it bled more. "No need to revisit it."

"No!" Nnenna snapped, more desperate than angry. The rain pattered against their umbrellas, like a metronome counting down her confession. "You don’t know everything."

"It doesn’t matter—" Arthur began.

"It does," Carl cut in gently, looking straight at Arthur. "It matters to her."

Arthur’s jaw tightened. He nodded, the silence stretching as he gave her the space she needed.

Carl urged softly.

honest. "When that thing was trying to kill me on the cliff, I tried to stop it. I don’t know how or why, but the wind

to just those

not to. I wanted to find out about my past, about what happened to my parents, by any

and again to always be careful,

love system?" written on both their faces. They swallowed it down. They didn’t interrupt. Whatever

he would be here. But I failed. And now, he’ll never know, and he’ll never forgive me. I don’t even

eyes, not caring that the rain soaked him, Nnenna was

possibilities that don’t end with someone dying." He paused, searching for the right words. "... In fact your overall actions were impressive. You reacted to save yourself.

something we can explain." He held her gaze, gentle but steady. "But let’s set the wind aside. Even if you did something strange in that moment, you couldn’t have known the outcome.

fight," he added, voice rough. "Not proud because of the outcome, never

yourself for the outcomes," Carl repeated firmly. He glanced at Arthur, as if checking they were aligned. "And make sure you never forget this—" his voice softened but carried weight, "—we could never hate you. For anything. Even if you

people, even those who hate you. Somto told us what you did in Lionara, how you turned things around when no one thought it possible. It’s remarkable, Nnenna, what you’ve achieved at your

"And listen to yourself. Somto, never forgive you?

jaw set,

slowly. "I know..." Her voice cracked. She already knew Somto had cared, but what she had always longed

know." He drew in a steadying breath. "On the night of his coronation, he called me.

her heart

girl. I advised him to wait until she turned

in disbelief. Her

revelation rattled her harder than she expected. She had been trying, slowly, to let go, knowing he was gone forever. The guilt of his death was already crushing her. But to hear that he had died with someone else in his heart,

a hand as if

her head hard. "I don’t want to

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