I shut myself in the courtyard. For three whole days, I didn't step outside. No food, no water, no seeing anyone. I just sat in Diana's study, looking at the books she'd left, her notes, her photos. Going through them over and over.On the fourth day, Evelyn came back.Isn't she supposed to be able to walk in a month?She didn't bother to call ahead. Just pushed the door open and walked in. When she saw the state I was in, she froze for a second, then her eyes went red, "Alexander, how did you let yourself get like this?"I didn't look at her. "Why are you here?""I was worried about you." Evelyn walked up and crouched in front of me, tilting her head up to look at my face. "sis is gone. You're here all alone. I couldn't bear it."I looked down at her face, and a strange feeling stirred in my chest. That face—I'd seen it countless times. Gentle, innocent, pitiful, always carrying that heartbreaking fragility. But right now, it looked... foreign."Evelyn, tell me the truth.""About
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