"Yeah."

"Is it my mother's death that's made you start hating me?" Dorothy could only think of that as an explanation.

He hated himself.

Otherwise, why would he be so heartless?

"...Don't bring that up.

Dorothy pursed her lips. At this point, she didn't want to argue with Everett. It was too exhausting, and because there had been love.

The only real relationship she had, she didn't want it to end in embarrassment for both of them.

"Everett, I'm begging you, okay?"

Dorothy turned away, refusing to look at him.

Because she didn't want to cry in front of Everett.

She didn't want anyone to see her at her weakest.

take the kids and leave. I promise I won't contact you again, I

"Dorothy..."

right. Our relationship has too much baggage, too deeply entangled, involving the deaths of both our mothers! Indeed, being together we only hurt each

to take things lightly. She had

Everett just couldn't work

the difference in status was something that could never fully be erased! If she had been someone of note,

the root of it, it was because

had understood this early on, it felt like a cruel

her live a dream, a

that she had awoken from the dream, not clinging to it was the only way to

about me if you take the

maintain

still trembled slightly, out

was afraid,

once Dorothy left, he'd never find her

would truly give up on him, and even if she later learned the whole truth, she wouldn't come back to

easily trust. It had taken him over a decade of effort

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