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?"

pulling him into the abyss, and disbelief still lingered on his

someone who betrays genuine feelings

onto his heart, weighing him down to the

he had just woken up from that serious illness, Lila had been sitting in the hospital room with him, gently rubbing her knee when she had

he had asked her casually

she had been standing too long and needed

had made it sound so effortless that he

had been there day and night caring for him. How could she have had

pale, and he felt his body sway

considered himself extraordinary and aloof

to look at him again,

the same crew. That day, Lila came to me and firmly told me she wanted to break up with you and

for so many years and had

this because she didn't want us to be disappointed in her!" Guilt washed over her features. "Dorian, the one who has always let

shock. He clenched his fists tightly, barely managing to

wasn't complaining or seeking their help to force him

inform Taylor that she intended to let go of the