Will You Marry Me, Again by Pear Heart

Chapter 12 Growing Old Together

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Cedric scoffed. “Don’t you think it’s ridiculous to celebrate the wedding anniversary now that we’re divorced?”

Maia pleaded softly, “We never got to celebrate our honeymoon or anniversary together. Just this once, Cedric. Can’t we make it special?”

“Maia, what tricks are you up to now?”

“I’m not up to anything. I’ll leave Prismara tomorrow and will never show up here again. I promise!” Maia quickly held up a hand to swear.

Cedric frowned as his head started to hurt again. He tried to shake it off.

He had been suffering from headaches lately, and a piece of memory tried to force its way back into his brain. He saw flashes of a little girl’s face overlaying Maia’s, and he recalled her sweet voice saying, “Cedric.”

Concerned, Maia asked, “Is something wrong?”

say no. In a deep voice,

nodded firmly. “Yes, I give

in the car.” His

to the villa? The hill

continued to look distant, but he turned. and walked toward the

and they walked side by side

walk through the snow

“That’s superstition.”

rubbing her hands together. “I guess you’re right. People say our wishes would come true if we wished upon the aurora, but we can’t grow old together now that we’re

“Are you cold?”

Maia instinctively

threw a pair of black gloves at her. “Put

the first time you’ve shown that you

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he had done it without

and asked, “May I know why you gave me the gloves?

gave him a hopeful

not that,”