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,

be a better

sounding strangely familiar. Sasha just listened as

had failed to understand such a simple philosophy. After having lived through so many ups and downs 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

enlightened. Her entire being came alive

saw the change in her expression. “Do you

Thank you! Well, I’ll be going now.

stood up, pulled out a wad of bills from her pocket

given to him. She had to hurry back home. She wanted to get her children, pack up, and move as soon

brought her three children

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 the place together and you

Sabrina had asked

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

smiled and shook her head to

two women and the three children spent the entire afternoon cleaning up the villa in Frontier Bay. They

When are we

will get you some food right away. Wait a while,

the groceries that she brought

when Sebastian would usually be coming home, she deliberately

turn off all the lights now. We’ll only