Thaddeus didn’t have time to dwell on the shock.

The cliff beneath him was collapsing!

“Ilana! Quick!”

In his panic, Thaddeus blurted out a name he hadn’t spoken in years.

Evadne’s pupils shrunk as her heart pounding wildly.

This call mysteriously injected her with a strange strength that allowed her to scramble to the edge of the cliff at the last moment, throwing herself into Thaddeus‘ arms.

With a tightening grip, he held her as tight as he could.

Boom!

In the last second before the collapse, Thaddeus shielded Evadne with his body and rolled away at an incredible speed, narrowly escaping disaster.

“Uh!” He grunted in pain as his back slammed into a rock. The impact sent a cold sweat down his face, quickly blending with the rain.

“Are you hurt?” Evadne lifted her head from his chest, her eyes filled with worry as she looked at his pale face.

“No.” Thaddeus suppressed the pain, not giving away any signs of discomfort in his deep voice.

Evadne, still shaken, let her soaked body collapse against his heaving chest, taking a deep breath.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Thaddeus looked at her, his wet lashes heavy upon his eyes, his voice hoarse.

“What?” Evadne’s heart fluttered as she avoided his intense gaze.

“Why didn’t you tell me our first encounter was thirteen years ago? Why didn’t you tell me you were the girl I saved here all those years ago?”

his heavy breaths. The intense bitterness and heartache intermingled, threatening

tightened and her face turned

suddenly called her llana? Was it because

did he remember

realization come thirteen years too

too late, far too late. She

me, Evadne.

control his emotions, Thaddeus gripped Evadne’s chin, forcing her to

in the name of Ilana, do you remember?” Evadne looked at him with dark eyes,

changed, her piercing words causing

He, of course, remembered.

She didn’t respond so he

as a joke, would appear in his life again thirteen

a secret, never letting it

like you

I never hoped that you would. After all, I was always just a passerby in your life. Whether it was thirteen

Thaddeus‘ breath hitched.

guilty. He saved her, yes,

about him for thirteen years, yet he turned

world, but he coldly shut her out, cruelly closing his heart to

“I’m sorry.”

voice quivered, his throat choked, “I genuinely didn’t know that you were that girl.

would still divorce me,

She had no lingering attachment to him, ‘Whether I am Evadne or llana, it’s just a name. It doesn’t change the relationship between us. And, you don’t need to apologize. Instead, I should be thanking you. After you saved me, you left.

case, why did you

was the thought that had been tormenting him for so long, “Just because I saved

Thaddeus. It’s all in the past. What’s the point of dwelling on a marriage that

her eyes again, as if closing the door to her heart that had just slightly opened. She shivered, “Now is not the time to talk

each other momentarily agreed to a truce. Both were somewhat injured and could only support each other as

phone was already broken and Thaddeus‘

the wrong side of Misty Mountain, otherwise, we would

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