Lahat ng Kabanata ng Unforgiven by the Skies: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

I'd already been missing for half a month, yet Gideon hadn't noticed. It was clear he didn't care about me. I clutched my chest, feeling like I'd been stabbed by a thousand needles."Aren't you heading home yet, Gideon?" his colleague asked, patting his shoulder.He stiffened. "I will in a while."The colleague smiled. "Are you and Madeline still fighting? Come on. Be a real man and give in when the time is right."With that, he left. Gideon sat alone in the spacious hall, his phone screen glowing dimly. The loneliness swallowed him, yet he refused to head home."Go home. I'm not there," I said. I gave him a complicated look, but he couldn't see or hear me.…I was an Emperian who'd traveled to the Titanus region. One night, I'd returned to my hotel a little too late and had run into some hooligans. Gideon, who had been passing by, had helped me chase them away, and I'd fallen for him at first sight.His chiseled features and tanned skin made him look particularly handsome. Aft

Nancy was watching TV in the living room when Gideon arrived at her apartment. She smiled, her eyes crinkling. "Madeline won't get mad at you for coming here, will she? I'm genuinely scared, though. You know I've always been timid."She calls me to tell me off whenever she gets mad…" She lowered her voice toward the end of her sentence. However, it was still loud enough for Gideon to hear her.He caressed her head gently. "No, she won't. I'll tell her off for you if she does do that. You don't have to fear anything with me around."He sat beside her and quietly accompanied her as she watched TV.Perhaps it was because those were the last things I'd felt before dying, but I vividly remembered the terror from that night and the despair of being abandoned by Gideon. When I saw how gentle he was with Nancy, I felt a strong wave of resentment. Maybe I shouldn't have expected anything of him after all.Nancy took a photo of Gideon's side profile when he wasn't paying attention before sh

It turned out my head had been at home this whole time. Gideon would've noticed it if he'd spent even one night at home, but he'd stayed away for half a month because he was mad at me over Nancy.He approached the fridge as if in a trance. He reached out but didn't dare touch my head. A police officer grabbed his hand and said, "Sorry, but you can't touch it. We need forensics in here!"The police officer escorted Gideon to the living room while the forensic doctor started checking the kitchen. "The kitchen shouldn't be the first crime scene—the body was dragged there. Bloodstains revealed by the reagent show that they started from the bedroom."The murderer broke into the master bedroom, killed the victim there, and dragged her to the kitchen. Then, he beheaded her and stored her head in the fridge. Her body was then sent for a sky burial," the forensic doctor said. He calmly described what had happened to me that night."I also noticed that the bedroom door is broken, but I don't

Nancy lowered her head and started weeping, sounding aggrieved as she said, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say those things; I only panicked after seeing you like this."Gideon's expression remained icy. He ignored her and left her there as he helped Mom out of the police station. Nancy watched them leave in disbelief. She couldn't understand why her trick had stopped working.…Gideon got my phone from the police. The murderer had taken it with him after killing me.Gideon unlocked my phone and checked my conversation with him. The last message was of me asking him for help, which made him tear up. There were many unread messages from friends and colleagues, but they were mostly from Mom.He saw how she kept asking about how I was doing. Had I dressed right for the weather? Had I taken my meals?"I'm sorry… I'm sorry for neglecting you…" he whispered.I felt freed. "It's okay."It was too bad he couldn't hear me say that anymore. When he checked my Instagram, the first thing he