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.

to their child. Every time her name

make himself

She slowly pushed

left, given that he was someone who valued time. Yet when she

it between two fingers.

Was he waiting to pick up where they’d stopped

across her face at that thought, and she went to get herself a glass of water

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

exhaled slowly, forming a

told him blankly.

a good rest. She went into her room and closed the door

tapped at the cigarette lightly to make the ashes fall as he watched her disappear behind the

he’d wanted.