Chapter 309 Epilogue: Landon and Alyssa I

The night before Lucien left, he felt like drowning his thoughts

in a bottle.

Drinking alone was too dreary, so he called up Landon, who seemed just as weighed down by his own troubles.

“Lucien, tell me, what’s so wrong with me? Why doesn’t she see me?” Landon grumbled, swirling his glass.

Lucien shot him a sidelong glance, a wry smirk tugging at his lips.

In his mind, he scoffed. If he couldn’t win over the woman he loved, it was no surprise Landon was striking out.

“Who’s got you all twisted up?” Lucien asked, his curiosity piqued.

Landon glanced at him, hesitating, then dodged the question.

“What about you? Got your heart in knots too?”

Lucien didn’t answer, just poured himself another drink, the amber liquid catching the light.

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Both men sat, wrapped in their private aches, glasses clinking

in a wordless toast to their shared misery.

Their only plan for the night was to drink until the world blurred.

Landon caved first, slumping over the table, mumbling Alyssa’s name as the driver helped him stumble back to his apartment.

No one was there to catch the quiet confession of his lonely heart.

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Alyssa and Landon had been at each other’s throats since they were kids.

To Alyssa, Landon was the pettiest guy she knew.

Older by years, he never let her win–not at games, not at anything.

As kids, he’d swipe her toys; as they grew, his teasing only got sharper.

From her earliest memories, Landon held the top spot on her list of people she couldn’t stand.

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Then came the day her mother returned, her face pale and

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broken.

“Alyssa, your father… there’s been a car accident. He didn’t

survive.”

Alyssa’s world collapsed.

She’d been counting on her dad to bring home that new doll she’d begged for. How could he be gone? They’d just talked yesterday, laughing over the phone.

At the funeral, for once, Landon didn’t poke fun.

huddled in a corner

found her

Aly,” Landon said softly, his voice almost

The sound tugged at Landon’s teenage heart,

lay off you from now on,” he said, his tone awkward but

no words could heal the wound of

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He just sat beside her, silent, keeping her company as she cried from sunset until the sky

black.

mother, Elena, finally found

face and

“Mom, I’m here!”

much as

a long time after that,

again, Alyssa was different. She was quieter and more withdrawn. The fearless, mischievous little princess

Elena’s remarriage and could sense Alyssa’s growing

Thanksgiving, Zane and the others threw a big

locking herself

She felt small, forgotten.

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found.

fawning over the person she

her bed, Alyssa’s eyes welled

tears. Now,

different.

knock at her window

flung open the window, and Landon climbed in, all

a heist?” Alyssa quipped, her voice wobbly but

hair with a playful roughness. “Get your head out of the clouds, Alyssa. I brought you some turkey. It is my

food, her throat

in his eyes. “Whoa, you crying because you’re

annoying!” Alyssa snapped, though

an attempt to hide her

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tilted her

his head, a sheepish grin spreading. “Thought it’d

more waterworks, got it?” he said, moving

back out the window with stubborn determination. “Landon, thanks!” she

after him.

on the sill, tossing

probably the first time she

from the window, his face a mix of amusement and confusion. “Landon,

with the acrobatics?”

dusted off his hands, flashing a grin. “Just training for the long jump. Thought I’d see how far I could

ya!” he called, striding

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home, Alyssa kept to herself, opening up only to her grandfather,

board at school,” she said, her

who’s gonna bake you

drives me up the

got you so

just don’t like her,” Alyssa mumbled, unable

put,” Allen said firmly. “You don’t have to hang out with her. You’ve got

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