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Luke stood in front of the window. The cigarette between his fingers had already burned to the very end, but he did not seem to notice. It had been two whole days since, but Raine and Zach seemed to have vanished into thin air. He did not hear a single thing about them. He had originally thought that Raine was simply playing hard to get, just like Helen mentioned. She had always done so. She would always put on a long-suffering look so that Luke would spare her a glance, but this time, she had gone overboard. She had never disappeared for so long before. No matter how distant Luke was and how he ignored her, she would always show up again, like a silent shadow that he could not get rid of. But this time, even her shadow had disappeared. “Even if she wants to throw a tantrum, there should be a limit to it,” he grumbled and scowled even further. A strange emotion rose in his heart. Fine. He had indeed not celebrated Zach’s birthday properly with them. It was only right

Winter came early to Northoreo. It was only early November, but it had already started snowing in Layla’s town. Amid the cold breeze, Layla tightened the scarf around her neck as she continued standing at the kindergarten’s entrance to wait for Samuel to finish school. Soon, a teacher escorted Samuel out, and the boy quickly held Layla’s hand. Even though he stumbled a bit, he was smiling brighter than the sun. “Mom, the teacher taught us how to sing today! I’ll sing for you tonight,” he said, as if he was offering the best treasure in the world. When Layla saw how happy he was, she felt a warmth in her heart and kissed his flushed cheek. It was only at that moment that she noticed that his eyes were a little red. “Your eyes are itching again, aren’t they?” Pity rose in her heart as she gently pushed Samuel’s hands down when he tried to rub them again. “I heard something good today. There’s a hospital here that can transplant corneas for you.”She leaned down and stared

On the day Samuel was discharged, Henry offered to send them back home in his car. When he appeared at the entrance to the ward, he had switched his white coat to a dark gray trench coat. He also held a sunflower school bag. “Henry!” Samuel cried out happily and hugged his thigh. Henry squatted down to look him in the eye before gently answering, “Do your eyes still hurt?”Samuel shook his head and lifted a corner of the gauze to reveal his slightly red eyes. Henry touched his face gently. “Can I bring you for your checkup in the hospital every Wednesday?”Layla stood by the side with her suitcase and asked hesitantly, “Isn’t that too much trouble?”“How could it be?” Henry took her suitcase and said softly, “Your house is along the way.”Layla knew that it was not the case. The hospital was on the eastern side of the town, and they lived on the western side. How could their house be along the way?But she did not reject his offer any further and simply watched as Henry

From that day onward, Luke kept watching the past security footage in the villa. He knew that he had misunderstood Raine and Zach plenty of times, but when he finally discovered the truth and wanted to make it up to them, he no longer had the chance to do so. He sent all his servants away and locked himself up in the villa to stare at the place that once belonged to the three of them, even though there was barely anything belonging to Raine left here. At that point, Luke finally realized that he had paid Raine and Zach far too little attention. Not only had he never trusted them, he had also never given them any attention. As he stared at Raine’s thin, exhausted body in the footage, along with his cold, aloof face, Luke felt as if several knives were stabbing his heart. He had to numb himself with alcohol so that he could suppress his despair to continue through the day. Then, one day, the butler pushed the door open while trembling. Luke was a disheveled mess. He had n

Even though she had calmly and firmly rejected Luke that day, Layla still lived in fear for the next half a month. Whenever she sent Samuel to the kindergarten, she had to repeatedly make sure that there were no suspicious individuals around. If she heard footsteps behind her after she finished work, she would whip her head around. She would even wake up from nightmares of Luke coming over to snatch Samuel from her.What she did not know was that Luke stayed close every day. When she left in the morning to send Samuel to the kindergarten and when she walked home at night after work, Luke would stay close and stare at them fixedly. One day, during a blizzard, Layla had to work until late at night. The bus had stopped running, so she had to walk home in the snow. Suddenly, she heard hurried footsteps behind her.“Don’t come any closer!” Layla turned around swiftly and lifted her pepper spray warily. Luke froze. His trench coat was covered in snow, and he held a new umbrel