บททั้งหมดของ I Gave My Life as His Engagement Gift: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 9

I was dead. But somehow, I was not completely dead. My soul hovered in midair as I looked down at the broken body in the corner of the garden. The snow fell harder, soon covering the blood and burying me beneath a small white mound. This was a secluded garden behind the hotel. With music thundering inside the banquet hall, no one had noticed that someone had just died here. I wanted to drift down and drape a coat over myself. It was so cold… And I had always been terrified of the cold when I was alive. Justin knew that in the past. During the first winter after we married, the heater broke. He held me tight all night and warmed my hands and feet against his body. But then Kelly came back, and everything changed.... I pulled back my translucent hand and floated toward the glamorous banquet hall. Beneath the enormous glass chandelier, the champagne tower glittered brilliantly. Justin stood tall in a black suit, one arm around Kelly, who was wearing a custom white go

Late that night, the guests had all left. Justin took Kelly back to our home… No, it was their home now. The manor had once been the home I decorated a little bit at a time. The beige curtains I had chosen, the potted plants I had tended, the matching slippers I had bought… Now, everything had changed. The entryway now held a Westerland-styled rug Kelly liked, and the living room overflowed with her favorite lilies. I had never kept lilies at home before because I was allergic to their pollen. "Justin, I was so happy tonight," Kelly said as she leaned against Justin's chest and traced circles over it with her finger. "But... No one has heard from Wendy, and I'm still a little worried. I can't get through to her phone either. Do you think something has happened to her?" Justin paused while loosening his tie, then gave a cold snort. "What could possibly happen to her? A woman like that is probably hiding in some hotel, planning what to tell the press about me and how to squ

"I tried to tell you. Six months ago, I came home with the report that day and filled the table with all your favorite dishes. "But… You brought Kelly home. You dumped everything I cooked into the trash and said looking at me ruined your appetite. "Three months ago, I was writhing in pain on the bed and called you, begging you to take me to the hospital. You said I was faking everything for sympathy and told me to die. "One month ago, I collapsed at home. Your mother had the housekeeper douse me with water to wake me up and said I was being lazy." Justin suddenly seemed to remember something, and he frantically scrolled through his phone's log. He found the call log from three months ago, then he found the voice message that lasted only three seconds. He played it. There came my voice, weak almost beyond recognition. "Justin... It hurts so much... Help me..." Then came his bitter reply, "You deserve to die in pain. Wendy, stop crying wolf. I'm busy. I don't have time fo

[Extra Chapter — Justin's POV] The moment those specks of light vanished, I felt as though part of me died with them. The snow kept falling, and the pain on my face felt like it was cut by each flake of snow. I knelt in the snow, holding the scarf in both hands. It still carried her scent, mingled with a faint trace of medicine and her unique fresh scent. It was the only thing she had left me, and it was also the cruelest curse she could have given me. [If we meet in another life, be the one who loves me next time, okay?] No, Wendy, you lied to me. The last thing you said was that you wanted to become a bird and never meet me again. You wanted to fly away and erase every bond between us. "Not a chance..." I forced the broken words from my throat and roared into the empty park like a madman. "Wendy, I don't care if you're human, a ghost, or a bird, you're mine! You can only ever be mine!" Only the howling winds answered me. I lowered my head and stared at the uneven