All Chapters of Bygone Sorrows: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Because she loved Sebastian, Melanie had for years put up with it.As it turned out, there were times Kylie was simply upset after being scolded by her boss over a minor mistake at work.Other times, she just felt like crying after hearing a melancholy song.Melanie had been jealous and had lost her temper before.Yet Sebastian would always tell her with total gravity: “Melanie, Kylie and I have known each other for fifteen years. She’s just a very close friend, my best friend I’d say. She has depression and could hurt herself at any moment. Can’t you be a little more tolerant?”But she had already been tolerant enough.This time, she was truly exhausted.“Mom, Dad, I’ll go check on him. You go ahead with dinner.”A heavy shower had begun pouring outside. Melanie hadn’t brought an umbrella, and she didn’t feel like going back inside to grab one.Braving the rain, she hailed a cab home, only to be greeted with a horrendous sight.On the sofa, Sebastian was lying tangled in an embrace wi

Hanging up the phone, Melanie walked through the rain out of the gated apartment zone. Because it was so remote, she tried to hail a cab, but none were available.Dragging her suitcase, she walked a long way down the road before finally flagging down a cab.Once she got in, the driver asked with concern, “It’s really late to be out by yourself. Aren’t you afraid of running into danger? Gotta be careful when you’re out alone.”The emotions she had been bottling up came bursting out at that moment.Melanie covered her face and sobbed uncontrollably. Five years of devotion, and she was nothing next to his childhood friend.“Where to, young lady?”For a moment, she didn’t even know where she could go.She couldn’t return to her parents’ place right now. It would only make them vexed with concern.She thought of her best friend. “To Parkside Residences.”“Alright.”When the cab arrived at the gate, Olivia Ross held an umbrella as she came out to meet Melanie.Seeing Melanie soaked to the bo

Her mother’s weeping sounded through the receiver, and Melanie sat bolt upright in bed. “Mom, what are you talking about? Who’s forcing Dad to give his blood?”“It’s Sebastian! After you left yesterday, I was worried about you two, so I went out after you. I called Sebastian, and he told your dad and me to meet him at the hospital. But the second we arrived, he started demanding blood from your dad to save some woman!“We want to help, we really do, but your dad’s no young man anymore. He really can’t do this!”Her heart shuddered violently as Melanie’s mind descended into a blank.Sebastian was forcing her father to give blood to Kylie?The man was out of his mind!Her father was sixty-two, well past the age for donating blood.On top of that, he was in poor health. Doctors had explicitly stated he could never donate blood under any circumstances.Without a second thought, Melanie immediately drove to the hospital.Still burning with a fever, she couldn’t care about anything else. She

Her mother erupted into a wail of utter despair before collapsing unconscious onto the floor.“Mom!”Melanie held her tightly, her entire body shaking violently.“Dad! Mom! No!”Her father was gone.Her mother had passed out from extreme emotional distress.Melanie stared blankly at the room around her, feeling as though all hope had vanished from her life.The doctor asked her to fill in the paperwork for her father’s affairs. As she dragged her feet forward along the corridor, she accidentally bumped into someone.Without lifting her head, she tried to step around them, but the person called out to her, “Melanie.”Hearing the voice, Melanie froze.She slowly looked up, her red and swollen eyes finally coming into focus.“I heard you and your dad gave a lot of blood for me? Thank you so much. But honestly, it was mine by right. After all, I lost my baby because of you.”Melanie glared at Kylie, overwhelmed with hatred.Kylie remained completely unbothered, her expression turning even

“What nonsense are you spewing?”The supplements in Sebastian’s hands crashed onto the floor. He lunged forward, grabbing the doctor’s collar in a death grip, his voice dark and strained. “He has always been in good health! It was just a little blood, How could he possibly be dead?”“It’s true, Mr. Haynes, I’m not lying to you,” the doctor said cautiously. “That day, when Ms. Tucker was heading to the morgue to collect the body, she ran into you in the hallway. I thought you knew.”Sebastian’s body seemed to frost over, his grip on the doctor’s collar slowly slipping away.No wonder Melanie’s face had been so ghastly pale that day.No wonder seeing Kylie had made her so upset that she grabbed her by the neck.It was because her father had passed away. She was overwhelmed with grief.Yet what had he done?He had shoved her to the ground and warned her never to lay a finger on Kylie again.A sudden sharp, agonizing pang pierced the depths of his chest, and Sebastian’s voice turned raspy.