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Vincent Mr. Vale stared at me for a long moment before letting out a heavy sigh. "Vincent..." His voice was calm, but there was unmistakable pity in his eyes. "I think your grief has reached the point where it's affecting your mind. You're seeing things because you desperately want them to be real." Mrs. Vale wiped away her tears, her heart aching at the broken man standing before her, yet she forced herself to speak. "Please, Ronan..." she said quietly. "Take your boss away. And... please don't let him come back here again. We can't keep doing this." Something inside me finally snapped. "Shut up!" I roared, my eyes blazing with fury. "I'm not crazy! I know what I saw!" My chest rose and fell violently as I tried to catch my breath, but every breath only made the pain worse. "Boss..." Ronan stepped in front of me carefully. "Let's just go." "Move!" I shoved his hand away without taking my eyes off the Vales. Mr. Vale's expression hardened. "Ronan, if you don't

VincentMy jaw clenched so tightly it began to ache.I couldn't stop staring at her.The woman I'd spent five years searching for... the woman I'd mourned... the woman I'd cried for until there were nights I thought my heart would simply give out... was standing right in front of me, calmly telling me she was going to marry another man.It felt unreal.No...It felt like someone had reached into my chest and was slowly crushing my heart with their bare hands.Before I even realized it, my mind dragged me back five years."Cassia and I are getting married."Those had been my words.I'd said them so casually back then, never once stopping to imagine what they would do to the woman standing in front of me. I'd watched Nyelle silently swallow her pain while pretending to be strong, and I hadn't cared enough to notice the way her heart had broken right before my eyes.Now I knew exactly how it felt. This was the same pain or even worse.Because I loved her now with every broken piece of my

Nyelle As soon as the emergency room doors opened, I shot to my feet so quickly that the plastic chair screeched across the polished floor. My heart had been trapped in my throat ever since Vincent had been wheeled inside. Every passing minute had felt like an hour, every doctor who walked past making me stand only to sink back down again. I searched the doctor's face anxiously before he even reached me, terrified that one look would tell me everything I never wanted to hear."Doctor..." My voice trembled. "How is he?"The doctor offered a reassuring smile that immediately loosened the knot in my chest."He's alright. He has a mild fever from staying in the rain for too long, and from what we gathered, he hasn't been sleeping properly for quite some time. His body simply gave out. We've given him medication and a sedative so he can finally get some proper rest. Once he wakes up and we observe him for a little while longer, he'll be discharged."I closed my eyes, releasing a shaky bre

Vincent"What do you mean you're going to attend her wedding?" Ronan stared at me as though I'd completely lost my mind. His mouth hung open, and he blinked several times, obviously waiting for me to tell him I was joking. When I didn't, he threw both hands into the air in frustration. "Boss, are you serious? That's insane! For five years you've been walking around like a dead man. You barely slept, barely ate, and every single day you regretted losing her. Now she's finally back, and instead of fighting for her, you're smiling? Why are you sitting there grinning to yourself... and why do you keep touching your lips?" He narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "Boss... did you hit your head too hard when you collapsed in the rain?"I didn't answer him. I couldn't. My mind had wandered back to the car outside Nyelle's house. I could still feel her lips against mine, still remember the way she'd silenced me before I could finish speaking. The memory replayed over and over, making the corner of

Vincent The tear clinging to Nyelle's lashes finally slipped free, tracing silently down her cheek as every eye in the hall remained fixed on her. Her lips trembled, and for what felt like an eternity, no sound came out. I couldn't breathe. My heartbeat thundered so violently against my ribs that it drowned out everything else. I had stood before countless people throughout my life without fear, but nothing had ever terrified me the way those few seconds did. My future, my marriage, my second chance... every piece of it rested on the next word that would leave her lips.She lowered her gaze briefly, clutching the bouquet so tightly the white roses quivered in her hands. When she finally looked up again, her eyes glistened with unshed tears. Every emotion she'd been carrying for years seemed to collide at once. Her voice shook as she finally broke the suffocating silence."I'm choosing this man..." she whispered, her words barely louder than a breath. "...because he waited years for