Before I Lose You Manhwa Novels & Stories

Jayden. My heart instantly thundered in my chest, the air whooshing out of my lungs like I’d just run a hundred meters. I took a shaky, long breath, trying to steady myself before pressing the read button. It had been—what?—48 hours since he ghosted me. Was this real? Or some cruel joke my tired mind was playing? Jayden: Are you up? I blinked at the message. Hell yes, I was up. Even if I were dead, I’d be up for this. My fingers trembled slightly as I typed back:

However, I bumped into a man walking in my direction, and my phone flew to the ground while I fell into his arms. "Call… Call the ambulance…" Biting down on my lower lip, I did my best to speak while hanging on to the last bit of my sanity. "Y-You're… Gabriella Clarkson?" I squinted at the man, trying to get a better look at him. "My name is Cyrus Goshan. I'm your father's student… and also your blind date for tomorrow." I couldn't hold it in anymore. Cyrus' body felt cool to the touch, and I kept wanting to get closer to him.

I’d walked past it on the way to the linen closet and stopped in the doorway and stood there looking at the equipment and the rubber floor tiles and the rack of weights in the corner and felt the particular weight of what that room had been before it was this. We’d painted it together. Before the miscarriage. I’d chosen a pale green and Jamie had stood on a stepladder with a roller and complained about the coverage and we’d laughed about something I couldn’t remember the specifics of anymore, just the quality of it — easy, unguarded, one of those early marriage moments that you store without realizing because you think there will be more of them. There hadn’t been more of them. I stood in th