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

couldn’t make himself leave her for

some time. She slowly pushed herself off the ground and walked to

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

he held it between two fingers. It seemed

here. Was he waiting to

shadow fell across her face at that thought, and she went to

feet on the floor as she approached him. “Should we do it here or on the

exhaled slowly, forming a white puff of

told him blankly. She secretly thanked her lucky

rest. She went into her room

the cigarette lightly to make the ashes fall as he watched her disappear behind the door.

he’d wanted.