The Begging After The End Novels & Stories

And my darling daughter, Alice—her future would be limitless. The End

he murmured, "wait for me. Once I’ve taken care of everything, I’ll come back and make it up to you." But I would not wait. ... By the time Lucas resolved the company’s affairs and came looking for me, I was already gone. I had quit my teaching job, left the city, and erased all traces of myself from his world. All I left behind was a single message: [The dead do not return.] Lucas understood. He sat before the abandoned house where we had once lived, crying in despair. Later, I learned he liquidated his empire, declared bankruptcy, and emptied his accounts into mine.

"Mr. Wayne, this is the repaired dashcam footage." Wayne took it and pressed play. Arden's broken voice came through the speaker. "Wayne… I've known for a long time that you could walk, but still, congratulations. And thank you for risking your life to save me five years ago. But this marriage you built out of lies, letting me live in fake happiness—it has to end. I don't blame you for deceiving me, but I'll never forgive you either. Goodbye, Wayne…" Her words were cut short by a deafening explosion.

I say before starting to walk through the portal. “Take care of them okay babygirl I love you” she says before the portal shuts.

There was only silence from the other end of the line. As the rain grew heavier, I heard my voice getting softer. "What do you want me to do for you to forgive my brother and let me go?" Jason finally replied to me. Every word of his felt icy to the bone. "Christine, why don't you just die? Once you die, I'll forgive you!" After hanging up, I wandered around the streets in a daze. The noise all around me seemed to have vanished. All I could hear was Jason's voice saying, "Why don't you just die?" over and over again in my head.

The moment I said that, Tyler whipped his head up and stared at me through his tear-stained face. “This is the last time I will ever call you that. From now on, you are Tyler, I am Nora, and there is nothing left between us.” Then, I turned to Elijah and added, “You did save my life once. Back at the black market, you risked everything for me, so we’re even. Consider the slate wiped clean.” A look of wild ecstasy and utter disbelief flashed through Elijah’s eyes. “Nora, have you… forgiven me?” I shook my head. “It is not forgiveness. It is simply that I no longer want anything to do with you.”

Cyrus borrowed someone’s phone to text me, saying he and Serena were both being deported back home. “Can you come back and take care of me?” His voice sounded extremely weak in the voice message. However, I did not feel a shred of pity, retorting mercilessly to cut his last strand of hope. “Face it, I don’t love you anymore. Now you’re like a turd in the latrine to me, dirty and foul. “Perhaps you were important to me once, but now I’m too disgusted to even look at you. Do you understand me now?”

In that perfect moment, surrounded by the love of our friends and family, I knew that my past was truly behind me. From today onwards , it's the beginning of a new chapter – a chapter filled with love, laughter, and endless possibilities. I looked into Salvatore's eyes, as he spoke, "I love you Emilia." "I love you too Salvatore." I replied and then we both kissed again. THE END

Where love began, and where it will always return The End