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?”

struggled to get the words out between his heavy breaths. The

and her face turned white as she realized. He remembered

suddenly called her llana? Was it because

remember at

come thirteen

late, far too late. She would rather he never

me, Evadne.

to control his emotions, Thaddeus gripped Evadne’s

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

her piercing words causing him

He, of course, remembered.

name. She didn’t respond so

never imagined that the girl he saved as a joke, would

she had kept it a

like

was always just a passerby in your

Thaddeus‘ breath hitched.

wrong, he felt guilty. He saved her, yes, but

thirteen years, yet he turned his

into his world, but he coldly shut her

“I’m sorry.”

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

you would still divorce me, wouldn’t

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. I didn’t know your name, your identity, and never got the chance to

case, why did you marry

to know. It was the thought that had been tormenting him for so long, “Just because I saved you? Because I did you a

matter, Thaddeus. It’s all in the past. What’s the point of dwelling on a marriage that ended without

door to her heart that had just slightly opened. She shivered, “Now is not the

heavy rain, the former couple who used to be at odds with each other momentarily agreed to a truce. Both were somewhat injured

already broken and

the wrong side of Misty Mountain, otherwise, we

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