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"No, I'm not," Jamie replied. "I'm at the sanatorium right now. Earlier this morning, the Doc asked me to find a type of medicinal herb that could be used as incense that would help Alicia sleep better and would also be beneficial for her condition. I brought it over after work. Did you head to the office to look for me?"

"No. I'm heading home now. You don't need to pick me up."

"Okay, darling. Go ahead and get ready first. Your fiancé will be right there."

After ending the call, Narissa glanced up at Jamie's office before turning around and walking back to her car.

Jamie pocketed his phone with a loving expression on his face and turned around. That was when he realized that Alicia had come downstairs at some point and was now standing right in front of him.

This meant that she heard everything he said to Narissa earlier. Their conversation might have triggered her.

Jamie frowned at once and he pondered how he could salvage the situation.

Alicia clutched her chest and swallowed as she tried to hold back her tears. Her eyes were watery as she asked, "You've gotten together with Narissa, right?"

She wasn't a fool. Over the past few days, she heard snippets of the conversations that Jamie had with Narissa over the phone.

It was already a possibility that she had long since deduced, but all this while, she could not bring herself to accept it. She didn't want to believe it.

Jamie looked down. His silence confirmed it.

Alicia felt as if millions of tiny needles were stabbing into every inch of her skin. She closed her eyes and clenched her fists as she told herself to hold onto the very last of her dignity.

"Go on. She's waiting for you. You don't need to come over anymore. I'll be just fine by myself."

She turned around and held the wall as she tried to make her way back upstairs, but she was so weak that her body kept quivering.

Jamie quickly rushed forward to help her. "I'll help you up."

your love, don't get involved with me, and don't make me rely on you! There's no such thing as someone dying if they can't be with someone else, but if someone gives another person hope in their darkest days before suddenly taking it away again,

only hope she could grasp onto, but now, the ray of light she

it came to love, no one

street once. She only felt that it was an insightful saying back then, but now,

all love ended in a happily ever after. Those who were not meant to

walked up the stairs with great difficulty. Each step she took was like a heavy thud in his heart. He was already ridden with guilt, and

One hour later.

stared out the window in a daze. The moonlight shone in through the window and cascaded across her body but failed to illuminate her

didn't notice

to give Narissa into the vase on the table before sitting

as if the two of them had gone back in time, where Paul was still a carefree, reckless person, and Alicia

feelings at the same time, and we both ended up brokenhearted on the same day. We're siblings who've fallen on hard times

still have each other. We've been together ever since we were in

and Alicia were fraternal twins. Their mother had died in childbirth and their father died in a plane crash soon after. They had been together

he never allowed Alicia to get hurt in any way. He was both

on his shoulder and encouraging

all her walls broke down as the hurt and grievance she felt burst out of her.

It was dawn.

and Irvin stepped out. He walked out and crossed the street before entering one of the smaller bungalows on the opposite

Alexander bought Griffith Manor, he bought this

house all of his

Irvin found Zephyr inside the lab studying a test tube of the stimulant

kept shaking the test tube in his hand as he commented, "Not bad at all. It's a very

Zephyr placed the test tube back down and wiped his hands as he

is it that you want to say?" Irvin piped

"Do you want to be

you know, I'm your father's honored guest. It's not a shameful thing to