Skeletons Of The Marital Closet

Chapter 812

After a few seconds of silence, Gale said, “But, this will be destroyed tomorrow.”

“Yes, because you're back.”

“But...” Gale turned around and looked at him. “I’m back. I’m still alive. It still doesn’t mean that I'll stay by your side and listen to you talk about your day.”

Shawn pursed his lips.

Asliver of pain surfaced from his heart, slowly creeping across his whole body.

He understood what she meant.

She would go. She should leave.

Everything he had would still just be that grave!

Gale said, “Don’t get rid of it. Shawn, just act like I'm actually dead like I won't appear anymore.”

That way, when he was frustrated, he could still stand there.

It would be a way to remember her.

calm, but one could hear that it was trembling upon closer inspection. “But Galey, since you're alive,

“Why?”

want you to be safe and happy, to live a long life,” Shawn

could he keep the grave

free. He wanted

it to exist. Everyone already knows that you're

then, he was selfish

that letting go was a

would give

not matter if he was

not say anything

at night. Shawn took off his jacket and put

the warmth on her shoulder, Gale looked down. She could still smell the faint smell

the two of us were a mistake

know you. Not knowing you would've been a

together for a lifetime. They had loved and hated each other before Even if they could not be

he got

better than them not knowing each other at all, better than them being complete strangers that lived

meant that Gale remembered him.