The Love that Never Really Dies

Sebastian said nothing.

But his gaze fell sternly and steadily on her face for the first time in so many years.

When exactly did he start hating her?

If he remembered correctly, when he was around the age of ten, the Wand family moved into town out of the blue. They were originally from the North. Soon after that, Mr. and Mrs. Wand brought Sasha, who was only five years old then, to meet the Hayes. Young Sebastian was told that the girl would be his future wife.

At that time, a ten-year-old boy had yet to grasp the meaning of love.

But, on that day, he saw with his own eyes how her parents rejoiced at the arrangement. The look of pleasure on their faces, and the way the little girl gawked at him…

They filled him with disgust.

He saw the clinging greed in their eyes. He saw the little girl’s idiocy. He hated them all.

But later, the adults of the Wand family got really close to his father. They often dropped by for visits with little Sasha in tow. And whenever they came over, they would leave the foolish girl in his company.

“Sebby, would you like an orange?”

Young Sasha was actually very gentle, just like Vivian.

Every time she came to visit the Hayes and met the handsome boy who never showed his emotions, she would always offer him her favorite candy.

But Sebastian had never appreciated her kindness.

He did not like her, so naturally, he did not like everything else about her. He would snatch the candy from her, toss it on the ground, and then stomp on it a couple of times to get her to leave!

Young Sasha’s eyes were always red and swollen, swimming with tears.

back again. She would observe him timidly, and from a short distance away. She was like a piece of sticky bubble gum that he could never seem to

had only

made him turn to hate her completely was that one time when he had an episode, and she

He was afraid that, once his family found out about him,

he secretly contacted his uncle

foolish girl saw him. She witnessed him lose control and strangle the family cat until it took its last breath.

Sebastian was taken to the

taken home, he was kept in his room in virtue of the authoritative diagnosis by the hospital. He had not

uncle

he disliked Sasha barely scratched the

If it had not been for her,

had to spend six years in a living

When he finally

How ironic!

woman in silence. His gaze was like a sharp sword, covered in dust for many years. How he wanted to cut her open right then and

particular year, he never

the peeled orange he was served that night looked too familiar to him. Of course, he had been eating the exact same thing for the entirety of six terrible years. From the very beginning when he turned a blind eye to the fruit until the very last one, which appeared alongside a letter wrapped in a

And so he ate.

something sweet to forget the bitterness

into you? Are you having

Sasha gulped.

on his sleeves in front of her. When provoked, he would fire up

gotten so calm? The stillness

“No.”

retracted his gaze. For an instant, his thin lips turned pale and