Too late for a second chance (Lila and Dorian)

Chapter 67

Lila later thought that if Kieran hadn't been there during that time, she might not have survived.

The flu hit her hard. The day she fell ill, her fever spiked and wouldn't come down. She lay weak in bed, unable to lift a finger.

She called Dorian, but Zara answered the phone instead. Lila couldn't remember much of what she had said in her dazed state. She sent another message later, but there was no reply.

She hadn't reached out because she wanted him to come. She wouldn't want him to risk catching the illness.

But being sick and possibly facing death in a foreign country, filled her with an overwhelmed loneliness. She just wanted to hear his voice, to feel some comfort.

But there was nothing.

Kieran found out the next day and rushed over.

By then, she hadn't had water all day.

She couldn't eat either, not because she didn't want to, but because she was too weak to move.

She was so sick that she could barely recognize anyone, yet she saw Zara's post on SoulLink.

was a photo of

a pair of hands were visible,

was a mole just above the webbing between his thumb and index

now, she realized that the post on SoulLink had been

her eyes, trying not to dwell on it. She was afraid that

tears when he heard her say "Who

know. If I had known, I would've

like this would have

bed. The cicadas in the Magnolia tree outside were buzzing incessantly. Their wings fluttered as they flew

need to feel bad. I'm not telling you this to make you pity me. I just want you to know that a long time ago, I had already begun building up

paused and took out the three beads she had picked up earlier. "The bracelet, it was just the last straw that broke us,"

skin as smooth as polished ivory, and the three

gaze trembled. He grasped her hand tightly, enclosing the beads within her palm,

he said, his voice shaking.

I've only ever loved you, from the beginning

been attracted to Zara, but he

had never kissed or

found it funny when Dorian said he and Zara never