Cassian wandered through the crowd, lost and confused. ||
He kept circling back, but der
but deep down, he knew []
I’d really left without a word.
Maybe to him. il just looked like I went home heartbroken. ||
That place still held the echoes of us.
without hesitation, Cassian rushed house.
The biting northern wind howled past his ears.
His already scrambled thoughts were interrupted again-
His phone was ringing.
I was w
Of course.
She
never look an for an answer. [
But at that moment, Cassis had room in his heart for just one person.
And it wasn’t her.
The memories case mashing down–0
was spring, motonwood fluff in the air.
| was coughing like crazy from allergies, but didn’t dare take medicine. [
I was pregnant.
On the way to the hospital, a call stopped me in my tracks.
She said she might not make it through the night.
1 weighed the choos
And went to see lowen for a “final goodbye.”
Then there was that morning frost on the windowpane.
Cassian and I watched golden leaves fall from the sycamore. []
I told him I wanted to make a painting with those leaves-
A gift for our baby.
Too bad that baby never got the chance to receive IL |
He knew how much I had suffered
But only now did in hit him. []
Bowen’s calls came one after another, each more desperate.
cassian finally picked up.
owen, don’t you have anyone else in your life?
If you’re so sick, maybe be with your fadly for once.” ||
For the first time, she didn’t talk back.
The lie was unraveling ||
The fog in his mind finally lifted. |
All this time he’d doubted me. [
Turns out, it was the girl he trusted most who was lying.
Lying an easily, even dragging life and death into it, ||
Well-
Liars always play dirty.
Cassian hung up without a second thought. |
He rushed home.
But by then, he meant nothing to me.[
1 flagged down a cab
The driver was kind enough to load my suitcase
