"You're surprisingly content," Dorothy remarked nonchalantly, not expecting Everett's earnest response.

"Of course, I am," he replied, his voice soft and light, laced with a smile. "You can never understand what those four years without you were like for me."

The thought of having children or a future with Dorothy was something Everett didn't dare to entertain, not even for a second!

All he wished for was to catch a glimpse of Dorothy from afar, hoping she wouldn't notice him.

Yet, he feared the day he might see her with another man by her side.

Such days of inner turmoil lasted for four long years for Everett!

So, by comparison, being able to spend a lifetime with Dorothy, having sons and daughters, he felt he couldn't ask for anything more.

Perhaps his only wish was to live a little longer.

For days to go by a bit slower.

After all, no one knows for sure if there's an afterlife.

face in her hands, leaning in for

"Yeah."

the business and move to Snowfall City,

they had missed out on

wife's long hair, "Alright, we'll settle in

family was celebrating a joyous occasion, which should

she didn't want too many guests, just the closest people

of the family only

the more apparent the

objections; what the child wanted, the

Dorothy had no

booked the entire hotel banquet hall, setting up just

Abigail's wedding! Thinking of the photo session with the bride, she

she definitely couldn't

to be the most beautiful

"Felicity."

way to her

and groom, they were the most noticeable

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