บททั้งหมดของ When the Snow Took Her Name: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 9

Janet's voice seemed like it could be ripped away by the blizzard. "My dad took a bullet for the Graham family, so they took me in to repay him."Before she turned ten, Janet was bright and clever, always acing her tests. However, after she got beaten up trying to protect Chester from his enemies, she was no longer the same.Chester made a promise before her dad's grave that he would love her forever. Even when he worked his way up to running the docks, he never thought of leaving Janet behind.However, when he turned 22, the Graham family set up a marriage for him, and his fiancée wanted Janet gone. Everyone thought they were perfect for each other. They said he should ditch Janet, the ditz, and marry a rich businessman's daughter who was pretty and wealthy.However, Chester would rather leave Riverton City than give up Janet."Do you think he's even more foolish than I am?" Janet's tears froze on her lashes. "He gave up his title as the so-called Ship King just to drift from pla

Janet, with her injured leg, kept trying to put out the fire with water. However, the smoke was too much, and she fell to the ground, struggling with the locked door. The fire grew wildly and reached Chester's room.Janet remembered Chester's special pendant. Fighting through the flames, she crawled to his room. She found the pendant, but the fire burned her leg. She fell, and the pendant broke into pieces on the floor.She sobbed while lying on the ground, trying to pick up the pieces."Chester's special pendant can't be broken."Just then, as Chester came back with the firefighters, he saw Janet with the broken pieces. Suddenly, Janet, who was in my arms, started shaking hard. She clutched my hand and cried out in pain, "Nathalie, his slap hurt so much. I tried to fix it for him, but he just yelled at me to go away and not to touch his stuff."I gently patted her back, trying to make her feel better. I told her it was all a dream—there was no fire, and no one was hitting her.

Rose looked so calm, like she did not care about other people's lives at all. I felt tears burn in my eyes as I charged at her, wanting to strike. "That was a real person's life! How could you do that?"Rose just casually blew on her nails. "She was just a burden. It was better to end her suffering. I was just doing her a favor."I was seeing red. "You'll get what's coming to you!"The guards held me back. I could not lay a finger on Rose.Chester was frozen. After a moment, he looked at me, hollow-eyed. "So, Janet's really gone?"I was too mad to talk. Chester turned and grabbed Rose by the throat. "I was done with her! Why did she have to die?"Rose held his hand. She was not scared. She was even smiling. "Chester, deep down, are you really over her? I can't stand any wrongdoing."He did not know what to say, but his grip was getting tighter. Rose was struggling to breathe, but she kept on smiling. "Chester, all this fuss over a little toy? Really? Or is it that you want to

Chester raced back, panting heavily. "What was Janet's last message for me?"His eyes sparkled with hope.However, I felt sorry for him as I was just playing a trick. Why should he only feel a slight regret when Janet was already gone? I pointed to the pear tree. "Janet said she buried something there."I was tricking him, but Chester, like someone dying of thirst, did not question it and scrambled toward the tree. Chester, in his suit, knelt under the blossoming pear tree.He started digging with a shovel, but it was too slow for him. He tossed the shovel aside and used his hands to dig through the dirt. His hands bled, but he did not stop.To my surprise, there really was a metal box buried under the tree. Chester carefully lifted the box and cradled it in his arms. He took a long time before he could bring himself to open it.He read what he had found inside the box slowly and with great care. I could not see what exactly it was. Tears started rolling down Chester's cheeks,