All Chapters of He Crossed Time for Her, So I Left Him Behind: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

When the sickness from the Chronos jump faded, I woke to smoke.The Romano docks were burning again. The old shipping office had half collapsed, fire crews shouted beyond the ruined gates, and water from the hoses ran black across the ground.I opened my eyes and saw Luca standing near one of the black SUVs.For one second, he looked at me.Then he turned away.Celeste was trapped on the second-floor balcony of the customs building, her white dress stained with ash. Luca took a fire blanket from one of his men and crossed the burning yard without hesitation.In the last life, he had saved me first.This time, he chose her.I forced myself up and tried to reach the outer gate alone. Smoke burned my throat, and every breath felt like swallowing fire. Before I could get far, Luca had already brought Celeste down from the balcony.She slipped on the wet steps.Luca caught her at once. At the same time, a burning storage rack collapsed near me, and an iron-edged case slid from the stack, sl

Chapter 2

In the last life, Luca saved me first.I survived the fire with injuries, but nothing fatal. During the days I stayed in the Romano private clinic, he sent flowers, private nurses, and whatever the doctors ordered for my recovery, but he never came to see me himself.He was busy mourning Celeste.He arranged her funeral, chose the flowers for the chapel, received every mourner, and stood beside her coffin as if part of him had been buried with her.Once, I asked him if he regretted saving me.If he regretted marrying me instead of her.He wiped my tears and said, “No, Elena. I love you. What I feel for Celeste is grief. She was once part of my life, so I owe her sorrow.”I tried to believe him.Then one night, I passed the chapel and heard him speaking to the elders.“I will never forget Celeste,” he said. “When my time comes, I will find her again.”His mother cried beside him.Luca opened a narrow silver locket. Inside was a strand of Celeste’s pale hair.“I saved Elena first because

Chapter 3

By the time I returned to the Romano estate, Luca’s signature was already hidden inside the dissolution papers.He sat beside me in the car, silent all the way back from the clinic. Smoke still clung to his coat, and every turn of the road pulled at the wound beneath my bandage.When the gates opened, he finally spoke.“My parents asked us to join them for dinner. My mother had the kitchen make what you like.”Before I could answer, one of Celeste’s men crossed the drive and bent close to Luca’s ear.Luca’s expression changed.“Celeste is still shaken from the fire,” he said. “She can’t stand the smell of smoke. I’ll check on her first.”He left before dinner began.The Romano dining room was quiet without him. Donna Sofia sat across from me, her eyes fixed on the empty chair at my side until her face slowly hardened.“He went to Celeste again.”I lowered my fork.The old Don said nothing, but the look he gave her was warning enough. Donna Sofia ignored it.“That woman has never been a

Chapter 4

Luca remembered the clinic only after Bianca had been treated and Celeste had finally stopped crying.When he arrived, my room was already empty. The sheets had been changed, and the discharge form lay clipped to my medical file.The doctor met him in the hallway.“Where is Elena?”“She left after sunrise.”“With that wound?”The doctor’s face tightened. “She should not have been walking at all. The injury reopened. By the time she was brought in, she had lost blood and collapsed from exhaustion.”Luca took the file.Delayed treatment. Blunt-force trauma. Excessive strain.He drove back to the estate and went straight to my room. Most of my dresses were still in the wardrobe, but the things I actually needed were gone.Only then did Luca go to the old Don’s study.Donna Sofia was there with the old Don and the family lawyer. When she saw the medical file in Luca’s hand, her expression changed from worry to disappointment.“You remembered her now?”Luca ignored the accusation.“Where is

Chapter 5

After leaving my empty room, Luca began looking for me.The old Voss villa was empty. The apartment I used before our marriage had been locked for years. I was not at the clinic, not at any hotel under my name, and not in any Romano safe house.Every place he thought I might go only proved how little he knew about where I would choose to disappear.By evening, he returned to the estate.The house was too quiet. My dresses were still upstairs, my name was still on the household records, but the few things that mattered had disappeared with me. For the first time, Luca understood that I had not left in anger.I had left with a plan.Near the service entrance, two maids stopped talking the moment they saw him.“What were you saying?” he asked.Neither of them answered.Luca’s voice lowered.“Speak.”One maid finally lowered her head.“I saw Miss Celeste last night. Before Donna Sofia went to the guest house, Miss Celeste carried Bianca toward the old greenhouse.”The other maid went pale.

Chapter 6

The next time I went to the Romano clinic, Luca was already waiting outside the examination room.He stood by the window with his coat over one arm, looking as if he had not slept. When the doctor told me the wound was healing and that rest would be enough, his expression eased for only a moment before his gaze fell to the bandage beneath my coat.“I should have brought you here myself that night,” he said.I buttoned my coat. “That night is over.”Before he could answer, the corridor doors opened, and Celeste hurried in with two guards behind her. Her face was pale, her eyes wet, and she went straight toward Luca as if the rest of us were not there.“Luca, thank God I found you. Someone has been following me since yesterday. I think it’s the Vitales. Please, I can’t go back there.”In the past, he would have taken her away before she finished speaking. This time, he stepped aside before her hands could reach him.Celeste froze.Luca looked at her without warmth. “Are they following yo

Chapter 7

Luca turned toward me.The corridor was still in chaos. Matteo’s men were taking Celeste away, clinic staff were clearing the hall, and Bianca had vanished beneath a bench, but Luca seemed to hear none of it.His eyes stayed on me.“You remember everything,” he said.“Yes.”His throat moved, and for a moment he looked less like the head of the Romano family than the man who had finally understood that the past had never belonged to him alone.“In the other life, I saved you first,” he said. “Celeste died before I could reach her. I told myself I did the right thing because you were my wife, but I could never stop seeing the fire.”I waited.His eyes were red.“Every birthday, every anniversary, every dinner with the family, I saw her in that warehouse. I thought if I went back and saved her, the guilt would end. I thought I could come back to you without her shadow between us.”“You wanted to save her first and still keep me afterward.”His face paled.“I did not think of it like that.

Chapter 8

Seven years later, I returned to the city for a restoration commission.By then, the Romano name no longer hurt to see. I had finished my training, built my own reputation, and learned to live without waiting for anyone to choose me.Before I left, Donna Sofia invited me back to the estate.I went because the past no longer had the power to keep me away.Luca was waiting in the study.He looked older than I expected. The sharpness was still there, but years of regret had worn it down into something quieter.“Elena,” he said.“Luca.”He looked at me for a long moment.“You look well.”“I am.”His eyes moved to my hand.“You never remarried.”“No.”For one second, hope appeared in his face.I ended it before he could misunderstand.“I chose my work. That has nothing to do with you.”The light in his eyes faded.Donna Sofia told me what happened after I left. Luca had lost his place on the inner council for a time, and the Vitales used Celeste’s stolen papers to damage several Romano rout

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