Too late for a second chance (Lila and Dorian)

Chapter 62

"She... she didn't tell me anything. Why didn't Lila... why didn't she say anything? Otherwise, I wouldn't have given it away."

Camille found this amusing. "You're still blaming her?"

Dorian stood frozen in place, the resentment he had built up against Lila over the past few days almost consuming him at that moment.

Had he really been blaming her?

He blamed her for being thoughtless, blamed her for being unreasonable.

Seeming to see through his thoughts, Camille let out a chuckle. "You blame her for not telling you, but she was thinking that she shouldn't tell you, that she couldn't let you bear that burden. Why is that, Dorian?"

He opened his mouth, but his throat was too dry to speak, and he could not utter a word.

Camille answered for him, "Because she only wants your love to be open and selfless! Go look at her fingers; the scars from carving the beads are still there!

"Have you never seen them? Have you ever asked about them?"

like a rope pulling him into the abyss, and disbelief still

someone who betrays genuine

words fell heavily, each like a boulder crashing onto his heart, weighing him down to the point where

had been sitting in the hospital room with him, gently rubbing her knee when she had

her casually

smiled and said she had been standing too long and needed to

so effortless that he hadn't thought much of

day and night caring for him. How could she have had time to

pale, and he

considered himself extraordinary and aloof was

refused to look at him

with tears. "You asked me why I recommended her and you to the same crew. That day, Lila came

supported each other for so many years and had come this far.

because she didn't want us to be disappointed in her!" Guilt washed over her

clenched his fists tightly, barely

complaining or seeking

she intended to let go of the past and start