All Chapters of He Touched Her, I Walked Away: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

“Why are you being so quiet? Are you not feeling well? Do you have a fever?”Seeing my silence, Sean Olson reached his hand out, trying to feel my forehead.However, that was the same hand he had just used to hold another woman.I quietly tilted my head away and slipped out of his embrace.The air in the room froze for a second.His hand was left hanging awkwardly in mid-air, looking completely lost, and a flash of panic crossed his eyes.“Ellie, are you… actually mad at me?“Look, I know I shouldn't have stood you and your parents up. You can hit me, yell at me, anything. Just please don't give me the silent treatment, okay?”Honestly, even just listening to him speak felt exhausting.I just wanted to end this whole circus as quickly as possible. So, I looked up and cut him off.“Go take a shower.“You're covered in sweat, and you know how much I hate a mess.”Sean let out a sigh of relief. His tense shoulders instantly dropped, and that familiar, helpless smile returned t

“Do you have any idea how worried I was? I was so scared that something had happened to you.“Before this, you always used to reply to me within seconds…"“I didn't sleep well last night, so after I came back and ate, I fell right asleep,” I replied, my tone flat.He clearly hadn't expected this kind of reaction from me.After a few seconds, his voice softened, carrying a hint of grievance.“Because you didn't reply, I was completely distracted. I ended up twisting my ankle during practice… It hurts a bit.”For a moment, my mind flashed back.Last winter, it was raining, and the roads were slick. I had taken a nasty fall while rushing to deliver his dance shoes to him. My ankle had swollen up to the size of a baseball in an instant.When I called him, he said twisting an ankle was no big deal and told me to go to the hospital by myself.I checked myself in, got the X-rays done, and waited for three agonizing hours before he finally showed up. And when he did, he carried the sc

Sean flipped on the lights and called out, his voice shaking.“Babe, I'm home. I won the championship…”No one responded. Only his own echo bounced around the empty living room.He rushed into the bedroom, then the study, only to find them empty.Finally, he sprinted into the walk-in closet, violently pulling open every single drawer.Ellie's jewelry, her scarves, even the hand cream she always left on the nightstand were gone.There was absolutely nothing.The place was completely cleared out, without a single jacket left behind.In that exact moment, all the strength was sucked right out of Sean. He collapsed straight onto the floor.Panic crashed over him like a tidal wave.At every past argument, the furthest Ellie would go was sitting at the convenience store downstairs for a bit or locking herself in the study.But now, there wasn't a trace of Ellie anywhere.Where could she have gone?These past three years, Ellie had quit her stable job back in her hometown just to

Dad snatched the baseball bat sitting right by the door and swung it toward Sean without hesitation.“Can't understand plain English, can you? Do I really need to throw you out myself?”Sean didn't even dare to dodge, taking the hits straight to his body. He stood there miserably in the hallway until our front door slammed shut right in his face.It was as if all his remaining hope had been completely locked out, but Sean didn't give up.The very next morning, I went downstairs to take out the trash before heading to work and saw him standing there holding a container and a bottle. He had dark circles under his eyes, clearly having gone the entire night without sleep.“Ellie, I brought your favorite, freshly made almond milk and sourdough toast.”The moment he saw me, he immediately rushed over, offering the breakfast to me as if presenting a prized treasure.“You used to wake up early to make this for me, so now it's my turn to make it for you. I tried it a bunch of times,

Late into the night, I received a phone call from an unknown number.“Hello, is this Ms. Ellie Warren? This is the Westside Police Department.”“We have a Mr. Sean Olson in custody, and he is requesting that you come down to post bail for him.”Bail? What on earth did he do?“Officer, I’m sorry, but I think you have the wrong person. Sean and I aren't related.”“But he claims you are his fiancée…”“Not anymore.”The officer’s voice turned incredibly serious and cold over the line. “Well, Mr. Olson has been detained under suspicion of sexual assault, and he has repeatedly begged for you to come down here.”Sexual assault?How could a word like that ever be tied to Sean?Even though I had already resolved to completely cut ties with him, hearing this news still left me stunned for a good while.After hesitating over and over, I ended up calling an Uber and heading down to the station anyway.The moment I arrived, I saw Madison curled up on a bench. She was wearing an oversize