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.

a good husband to Olivia and a good father to their child. Every time her name left his lips,

couldn’t make himself

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

Yet when she raised

a cigarette flickered as he held it between two

he was still here. Was he waiting to pick up where

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

we do it here or on the bed?” she asked in a

sickly face, then exhaled slowly, forming

of doing it,” Olivia told him blankly. She secretly thanked her lucky stars that she’d been able to

rest. She went

as

he’d wanted.