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.

couldn’t seem to draw in enough

her on her birthday? Just because he had gone to Sharon instead? Was Natalie really leaving him

What place did

pressure inside him

a violent cough, Jensen spewed a mouthful of blood, splattering

knock came from

Anyone home? Delivery! If someone’s home,

voice sounded from beyond

first, Jensen had no intention of answering. But

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this was something

she was gone, Jensen didn’t want to miss

from his

“Whose package?”

and bloodshot eyes startled the

“Uh, Ms. Summers’s package.”

her husband. I’ll

scrawled his name across the slip, and

light, like it

he tore

saw what was inside, his eyes widened, his heart plunging into

training

Fracian?


had Natalie attended Fracian

showed she had completed the full course over half a month.

ago, when he and Felix had been speaking

Jensen realized why Natalie had left so decisively after he abandoned

had already discovered everything he had tried

ago, that

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