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.

happened, he would have been a good husband to Olivia and a good father to their child. Every time her name

simply couldn’t make himself

some time. She slowly pushed herself off

who valued time. Yet when she raised

as he held it between two fingers. It seemed

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

thought, and she went to get herself a glass of water to

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

stare at her sickly face, then exhaled slowly, forming

Olivia told him blankly. She secretly thanked her lucky stars

rest. She went into her room and

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

he’d wanted.