Chapter 627

Diana thought that she could let Julian go.

But as it turned out, outsiders were always wiser when it comes to relationships.

If it weren’t for Madam Fulcher’s intervention, Diana didn’t know how much longer it would take for her and Julian to reconcile.

The mere thought of Madam Fulcher sent her mood plummeting once more, but in order to not worry Julian, she turned her face away quietly. “Let the workers come in quickly. If we drag things out later, it’ll affect our rest.”

After the room was tidied up, it did feel a lot more comfortable.

Diana laid on the bed after dinner to get some rest.

Julian called out to Diana a few times, but she didn’t respond.

She was probably asleep.

Julian asked Noel for help, and the latter opened the windows with a clatter. He then lit a cigarette under the pale moonlight.

Memories of his grandmother washed over him like an overwhelming sandstorm. He dared not express his longing for Grandma in front of Diana in the day, for fear that they would both drown in their sorrow. That left him with only

nighttime, which he would spend smoking on a cigarette and staring at the dim flame under the moonlight.

puff, feeling the smoke go through

youth, he tried to imagine it through the puffs of smoke surrounding him; how she was like growing up into the role of a grandmother, and how

flame flickered in the

love Grandma left behind for him

in fact, not

smell the smoke of

her room, unless he

putting up a front and simply finding distractions to forget about the pain Grandma’s death brought

the distractions were hardly

for another would never fail to drown one out

just like when Diana had lost her babies; the pain and sorrow

really rather be the one who suffered at

to be the one

never allow that. She was Grandma’s

Grandma, she had a kin who treated her

no

flowed down her cheeks once again,

a while, almost half her

the bed quietly with her eyes wide open, listening to Julian’s labored breathing and the subtle smell of cigarette smoke that would drift into

Julian…

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