027: Here without you

" Would you also take care of my grave so devotedly when I left this world ." Jacob's words echoed in my head again and again. What did he mean by that? I turned around in amazement, but all I could see was him disappearing through the controls.

I looked after him for a long time before finally walking on. There was no point in putting down roots here. There was just as little hope that he would come to his senses. No, because he had once again impressively proven to me what a bastard he was. Rarely have I known someone who took advantage of people so much.

In my opinion, that required a healthy dose of ruthlessness, which Jake no doubt possessed. I just wondered why he had shown me a completely different side of himself every now and then. Or was that just an illusion? Maybe I twisted it that way because I just couldn't believe he was so cold-hearted.

Actually, I wasn't a naive person, on the contrary, I was rather overly suspicious and for a good reason. And yet Jakob had managed