All Chapters of When I Realized I Had Lost My Angel: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

The photograph remained in Elena's hands longer than she realized.She was still sitting there, surrounded by silence, her eyes fixed on the old picture of her and Alexander from that distant day.She was smiling in it as though the entire world held nothing but kindness for her.And Alexander...He was looking at her instead of the camera.Her eyes lingered on those little details.His arm around her waist, her shy smile, and the ring shining on her finger. Everything in the picture seemed so simple.Pure, perfect... and real.But that special photograph had now become an unbearably painful memory.She ran her fingertips along its edge, then let out a long sigh.How distant the girl in that picture seemed now.She no longer knew whether she missed Alexander himself...Or her former self...Or the man she had believed him to be back then.Her phone suddenly vibrated on the table.She startled slightly, then looked at it.Ryan's name appeared on the screen.She left the photograph on t

Since that day, Elena had tried to convince herself that what had happened was nothing more than a passing encounter.Alexander had appeared out of nowhere, walked beside her for a while, then left without asking her for anything.It was supposed to end there.But she was wrong.The following morning, Elena was sitting in a quiet café, turning the pages of a book in front of her and trying to concentrate on reading.She placed her coffee cup beside her, then turned the page.Suddenly, a hand reached out in front of her and placed a small piece of candy beside the book.Elena slowly raised her eyes.Alexander was standing in front of her, as though his appearance in this place were perfectly normal.She looked at the candy, then at him."What is this?"He sat in the chair opposite her without waiting for an invitation."A gift.""Why?""Because I saw you looking at it when you came in."She looked at the candy again."I only looked at it for two seconds.""But you were looking at it ad