Even After Death by Lilting Champ

Chapter 86

Ethan took a furtive glance around the apartment. It wasn’t big, but he could feel Olivia’s presence in every corner.

When he noticed the baby crib in her room, he remembered that it was the only thing she’d taken with her when she’d left him. As the realization washed over him, his heart turned into a jumbled mess.

After seeing her jump off the building that day, he’d come to realize one thing.

He’d followed after her without hesitation, which made him understand that he couldn’t stop loving her no matter how much he hated her.

His love and hate were intertwined. They fused into a prickly bramble full of thors, coiling tightly around the two of them. It was as though the more he pushed her off into the dark, the closer he got to the edge of a cliff himself.

Ethan picked up a soft toy on the bed. Olivia had always hugged it to make herself sleep for countless nights in the past two

years.

good father to their child. Every time her name left his lips, he could still feel

simply couldn’t make himself leave her

finally felt better after some time. She slowly pushed herself off the

someone who valued time. Yet when she raised her head to look around

cigarette flickered as he held it between two fingers. It seemed that his smoking addiction had

was astonished that he was still here. Was he waiting to pick up

her face at that thought, and she went to get herself

as she approached him. “Should we do it here or on the bed?” she asked in a cool and distant tone,

exhaled slowly, forming a white puff of smoke in the air.

told him blankly.

good rest. She went into her

as he watched her disappear behind the door. This was exactly

he’d wanted.