Chapter 31 The Truth Natalie Knew

He kept watching, only to see Natalie get up to close the window because of the rain, accidentally knocking over their framed photo together.

From behind that photo slipped out another one-of him and Sharon.

Jensen froze.

When had he ever put that picture into the frame?

Why didn’t he remember it at all?

Then, in the video, Natalie was laughing and crying at the same time, looking as if she might shatter at any

moment.

Even through the screen, Jensen could feel her despair.

He instinctively reached out to caress the cold surface of the video, but then heard Natalie’s broken voice say, “So Sharon is really your crush, and I was just the fallback.”

“No! That’s not true! Natalie, it’s not like that!”

Jensen hurried to explain, but what kind of response could he expect from a cold recording?

He watched as Natalie yanked down the paper crane wind chime, smashed it, and swept it away like trash.

A sharp pain tore through Jensen’s chest.


“Why? Why would you do that? Do you know how many nights it took you to fold those cranes?”

“You knew they were the proof of our love. How could you be so cruel as to throw them away?”

Jensen clutched his chest, gasping for breath.

burned. He couldn’t seem to draw in

with her on her birthday? Just because he had gone

what did he mean to her? What place did

inside him

cough, Jensen spewed a mouthful of blood, splattering it

then, a knock came

home? Delivery! If

courier’s voice sounded

first, Jensen had no intention of answering. But

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this was something she had

Jensen didn’t want to miss anything that

forced himself up, wiped the blood from his lips,

“Whose package?”

pale face and bloodshot eyes startled the

“Uh, Ms. Summers’s package.”

husband. I’ll sign

scrawled his name across the slip, and carried

like it held

he tore it

saw what was inside, his eyes widened,

training

Fracian?


had Natalie attended

full course over half a month. ago,

meant-ten days ago, when he and Felix had been speaking in Fracian-Natalie could understand

Jensen realized why Natalie had left so decisively after he abandoned her to take Sharon’s

everything he had tried

ten days ago, that

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