Too late for a second chance (Lila and Dorian)

Chapter 67

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.

of a man massaging

hands were visible, but

the webbing between his thumb and index finger on his left

realized that the post on

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

almost heartbroken and moved to tears when he heard her say "Who wouldn't feel bad when they're

I didn't know. If I had known, I

him like this would have made

in the Magnolia tree outside were buzzing incessantly.

you pity me. I just want you to know that a long time ago, I had already

the three beads she had picked up earlier. "The bracelet, it was just the last straw

her palm, her fair skin as smooth as polished ivory, and the three sandalwood beads lay quietly in

within her palm, as if any delay

his voice shaking. His eyes were filled with

the beginning to end. Zara and I, we never

once been attracted to Zara, but he had never done anything to betray

had never kissed

Dorian said he and Zara never crossed any

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