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The Rain Belongs to Me Chapter 9
Kenneth looked into my eyes, as though he were finally beginning to understand something.A choked sob escaped his throat, and he continued painfully, "Berta approaching me was nothing but a business arrangement. If I married her, she would get a 20 percent stake in the firm, and in return, her family would help me secure the president's position.He lowered his head, his voice shaky. "I was tempted by the opportunity, but I regretted it afterward. That's why I resigned."I don't care about becoming president anymore. I taped the picture back together, and I went through the trash and picked up everything you threw away."He hurriedly unlocked his phone and held it out to me. The screen showed photographs of the balcony, where the flowers had been carefully tended back to life, along with the binder of movie ticket stubs he'd salvaged.The stains had been cleaned, the wrinkled tickets carefully flattened, and even the photograph I'd cut in half had been painstakingly taped back to
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Our bakery's soft opening was a huge success.In the first month, we'd already cleared tens of thousands of dollars in profit, and Grace immediately put her business instincts to work.She arranged for our pastries to be packaged and shipped nationwide, while promoting them as local specialties for tourists.Between the baking, the orders, and the endless stream of customers, I was too busy to dwell on the past, and little by little, even Kenneth's face—the face I'd looked at every day for more than ten years—began to fade from my thoughts.The days bled into weeks, and the weeks slipped quietly into months. No matter how painful a wound was, time had a way of dulling the ache.Grace found herself a new man to pursue her, while the line outside our shop seemed to stretch farther down the block with every passing day.Then, one rainy afternoon, I caught sight of a familiar figure standing outside the shop window.It was Kenneth, who had lost a noticeable amount of weight. His onc
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Hannah's POVIt was early morning in the quiet town of Woodstock, with a bright moon hanging in a clear, star-filled sky when I finally arrived.I recognized my college friend the moment I saw her.We hadn't seen each other in years, but one look at the dark circles beneath my eyes and the strained smile I was wearing was enough for her to understand that I wasn't doing well.Grace Carson didn't ask any questions. Instead, she smiled, opened the passenger door, and told me to get in.She was still the same girl I remembered—bright, lively, and incapable of sitting in silence for more than five minutes. Throughout the drive, she kept me entertained with stories about her 38th ill-fated romance and her hopeless ex-husband, chatting so naturally that the years apart seemed to disappear.When we pulled up outside her cottage, Grace grabbed my suitcase from the trunk and carried it inside. The dining table was already set with a comforting home-cooked meal.The moment I saw the food
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The phone slipped from Kenneth's hand and clattered onto the floor. He stood there in stunned silence, his mind spinning as his blood ran cold. He had never imagined that Hannah would stop answering his calls, much less block his number.Could the girl who used to split her chocolate chip cookie with him even when she was hungry herself really be gone from his life for good? He couldn't let himself think about it, because the possibility was too frightening to face.Outside, a drizzle had begun to fall, but for once, there was no one waiting at the entrance to hold an umbrella over him.Kenneth walked straight into the rain and let it soak through his clothes, barely seeming to notice the cold as his wet hair plastered itself to his forehead.Then he remembered what happened the other afternoon. The rain had been pouring even harder that day, and he'd tilted his umbrella so far toward Berta that half of his own body had been left exposed to the downpour.He hadn't spared any tho
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Third-person POVKenneth's phone remained silent throughout the day. There were no messages or calls from Hannah. The silence left him strangely restless.Part of him knew he had gone too far and owed her an apology, but another part still felt that she had been too unreasonable and needed to learn that she couldn't keep pushing him like this.By the time evening came, he drove home, expecting to find her waiting there. Instead, the house was pitch dark."Hannah? Hannah!" he called out, kicking off his shoes.He headed straight for the bedroom as usual and pushed open the door. Everything looked almost exactly as it always had, yet the familiar space felt strangely empty, as though something important had disappeared.He checked the rest of the house, but there was no sign of her anywhere. The flicker of unease turned into panic when he pulled out his phone and tried to call her, only to find that her phone was switched off.The automated message that came through sounded co
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Kenneth was silent for eight full seconds. I counted it.Then his reply finally came through: [Come over. I'll explain.]I closed my hand around the condom packet and drove straight to the address he'd sent me. A crowd had gathered in the backyard, laughing, drinking, and enjoying a summer cookout around the grill.Berta sat right in the middle, chatting and laughing as though she owned the place, while I looked like the outsider who had just wandered into the wrong party.The moment they saw me, the laughter stopped."Come here."Kenneth frowned and waved dismissively. The cold impatience in his eyes sent a sharp pain through me.I didn't move, but Berta did. With a smug smile, she walked over, caught me by the arm, and tried to pull me toward the grill."I heard your dad was stabbed to death by your mom, and then your mom killed herself in a psychiatric hospital," she taunted. "So, does that make you the daughter of a crazy woman?"Met with my glare, she continued innocently
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