The Love that Never Really Dies

So it was all because of that. Oh… he already knew.

Paralyzed by an overwhelming sense of terror, Sasha was as still as a statue. Her mind was in such a mess she could not make heads or tails.

“Darling?”

Her catatonic state alarmed him, making his heart sink further.

Is there really something going on between them?

The man fell silent.

For a few seconds, the world was reduced to just the two of them sitting side by side in the dining carriage. It was a pin drop silence and definitely resembled the calm before the storm.

The silence was finally broken by the service staff who had returned with the hot chocolate. “Is everything okay?”

He, too, sensed the palpable tension in the air and felt a tingle in his scalp.

Fortunately for him, Sasha snapped back to reality upon his entrance.

“Oh… It’s all right. Is this hot chocolate? Thank you very much,” she said while taking over the cup with her icy cold hand.

Sasha was holding it as though it was not some steamy hot chocolate in a porcelain teacup.

and studied her stupefied expression carefully. At

“Darling?” he uttered softly.

“Yes?”

eyes with Sebastian, she tried

into a frenzy. She could not even

behaving unreasonably and making her upset. It now dawned on her that she was the root problem.

at the hospital the other day, but it wasn’t what you think.” Many thoughts rushed through her head in an instance. Still holding onto the hot chocolate, Sasha started to

to keep silent. He was holding his breath

mother had said something to him, that was why he came looking for me at the hospital to

that his mother had told him everything, so I panicked. I was afraid that you’d be upset about his visit,

her head. Her eyes welled up as she recalled how worried and terrified she had felt on

about this part. Solomon did come looking for me because of that and

You mean she’s aware of

matter. I thought I only needed to have a brief word with you about letting him go. But I didn’t expect her to turn around and did something so evil!” With a heavy heart, Sasha told him part of the truth. To

that woman to lay a finger on him. But at the same time,

the man started to believe her

planned all these so that I’d let go of her son. And at the same time, she also tried to sow discord

nodded in assent as tears trickled down her

earlier? Do you still not

like that.” She looked into