Your Love Is But a Dream

Chapter 74

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Chapter

74

When froze in place, a surge of anger and fear crashing through him like a tidal wave, squeezing his chest until he could barely breathe. Heded to suppress the emotions that threatened to overtake him, but his face hardened, and he demanded, "What do you mean?" Clara looked at him calmly, her gare steady and devoid of emotion.

"When," she began quietly, her voice firm and measured. "I'm grateful for everything you've done for me. Aunt Katrina was always busy with work, but you raised, protected, and spoiled me.

"I'll never be able to repay that landness. I don't have much to offer,

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to offer, but the things I sent with Aunt Katrina were my way of expressing gratitude" She paused briefly, then continued, her voice unwavering "I wasn't muture enogh before, I put myself in the wrong place and caused you a lot of trouble. For that, I owe van apology. 1 hope you and live can find happiness together. From now on, I'll treat you as nothing more than family-abrother. I won't entertain any foolish thoughts or dingt voor life anymore Herwinds were

and clear, without a hint of

sincere, free of resentment of

clung to a faint hope. But heating let say this aloud felt like a death sentence. It was like she had taken a knife to his chest, carving nut his

wasn't what he wanted. From the start, all he'd wanted was to distance her from the complications of his family. He'd thought she

leave.

taste filled his throat. He gripped her hand tightly, his voice breaking and filled with desperation as he

because of Ivy. I shouldn't have

never thought you'd leave. Mease come back with

years ago had once been the most certain truth in Clara's

softly, shading her head. "That's not

day at the hospital. You're not my legal

you to save me. I said things I shouldn't have, and I blamed

su remember? you

dagger to Waen's chest, piercing straight through his heart. Each word was a cruel teminder

complexion pale as if all the blood had