Even After Death by Lilting Champ

Chapter 21

It had been so long since he called her “darling.” Hearing that stunned Olivia, and she lay still in a daze.

She didn’t know how much he had drunk to get to this state. He was behaving as if they hadn’t argued. He pulled Olivia into his armis. Enclosed in the heat of his familiar embrace, Olivia almost could not control herself.

Struggling to remain rational, she reached out to push him away but Ethan stopped her, took her hand, and brought it to his lips. His warm lips gently brushed the back of her hand as he muttered, “Where did you go? I looked for you for so long.”

Olivia couldn’t hold back her tears. It seemed that she was set to spend all the tears she had that year. Fighting her tears, she asked, “Weren’t you the one who pushed me away?”

“Nonsense.” Ethan held her tighter, drunkenly kissing the back of her ear. “The person I love the most in my life is you. How could 1 bear to push you away?”

take a good look

off and the curtains were drawn. Under the faint illumination

lowered himself and gently kissed away her tears,

up like this. If he was even a little bit sober, he wouldn’t forget how much he hated her, let alone speak to her

buried her head in his embrace. Sniffling and trembling, she asked, “Ethan, what

you talking

born into this world ages and eventually

you. We will enter eternal slumber together and be laid to rest at the same

his shirt. “Nonsense. I’m sure you’ll celebrate with fireworks and marry someone else the

it on his bare chest under his shirt, his skin flush against her palm. His heart was

you hear it? It’s beating for you.