The Love that Never Really Dies

Sasha was speechless.

She dried the tears on her cheeks and turned to look at the person who had sat down next to her. She was surprised to find that he was just a young boy.

His clothes were shabby and well-worn, and a guitar was strapped across his back.

“What’s with that look? Is a wandering singer like me unworthy of sitting next to you?

“Huh?” Sasha immediately shook her head. “No, no! You just reminded me of my younger brother, that’s all.”

Her “brother”; the one who had impersonated as Lance on Wall Street.

Sasha felt like crying again at that thought.

The boy saw her expression change and quickly started strumming on his guitar. “Shall I play you a song? Maybe you’ll feel better after some tunes…”

“Will I really?”

“Of course! Just listen and see!”

Then, the boy, who Sasha noticed was rather handsome, began to play a melody.

“Now that I am a man,

I can only keep running,

No matter how scared I am,

Running through the darkness,

Hello, tomorrow,

Smile through your tears,

will be

subway, sounding strangely familiar. Sasha just listened

in all the years of my life, how could I let man and a divorce crush me like this? I don’t belong to him; he’s not my master! Why does he always have the final

felt enlightened. Her entire being came

the change

do! Thank you! Well,

wad of bills from her pocket and gratefully pressed them into the boy’s

count exactly how much she had given to him. She had to hurry back home. She wanted to get her children, pack up, and move as soon as possible. No had cleaned Royal Court One in a long time. She had been

reached home, she had brought her

seen her leaving with bags of their belongings. She had protested and said she was insane for moving when Christmas was

words and instead, had brought her along

celebrate Christmas there together. Besides, you’ve never been there, right? We’ll clean up

had asked in

had scooped up Vivian, who was lagging behind, and both of

and shook

and the three children spent the entire afternoon cleaning up the villa in Frontier Bay. They were finally done as the sun started

When are we having

Mommy will get you some food right

immediately went into the kitchen, pulled out the groceries that she brought with her

would usually be coming home,

off all the lights now. We’ll only