NovelApexChapter 13
Chapter 13
Alex reached out tocasually, as if I'd just returned from a routine vacation.
“Still angry? Can we reconcile?”
| frowned, staring at him motionlessly.
“I was wrong about this. | apologize.” He habitually squeezed my fingers, and my eyes slowly traced down his
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Initially, | had so many questions - why me, why five years.
But then | realized many questions were meaningless now.
“Alex, we've been over for a long time.”
“| already set you free. You don’t need to pretend anymore, don’t need to worry about disappearing gracefully.”
Though I could no longer distinguish where your pretense ended and sincerity began.
“I never agreed to your decision...”
“Your agreement wasn’t needed, just like | never agreed to you entering my life that way!”
Theals wounds, but it needs so much time.
One year one year of sleepless nights - wasn’t enough to fade these scars.
“Please don’t seekout anymore. I'm begging you.” | stepped backward. “This is the most dignified ending for
us.”
“What if-” he stepped closer, gently wiping tears from my eyes, “I refuse to accept that?”
| hadn't considered this possibility, so | scrambled for a response.
He suddenly laughed silently, covering my anxious, darting eyes with his hand: “Don’t be afraid. | won't do that
to you.”
“But Emma, you still oweone wish, if you're willing.”
“| promise you, between us...”
Chapter 13
He couldn't finish, couldn't speak words of final separation.
| should have expected this step, but kept delaying, hoping to find another way out.
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