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He couldn’t accept that the memories he held as most precious and sweet were things she now found disgusting.
That she would even say she’d push him into an icy river…
Did she really not want him anymore?
How could she be so cruel, so heartless?
His hand brushed against the recording pen in his pocket, and it felt like finding one last lifeline.
Fumbling, he pulled it out and played a recording.
“Lily will always love John, until death.”
“No matter how much John makes me angry, I’ll never break up with him. As long as he says one sentence -Lily, let’s go home-I’ll go back to him.”
The recorder was filled with her old promises to him. Ten long minutes of her voice, dripping with love. spilled into the night air before finally fading into silence.
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John carefully, almost reverently, slipped the recorder back into his pocket and rasped, “Lily, let’s go home..”
She thought he was hopeless beyond saving.
Any couple caught in the haze of love could make lofty vows. But who, when the relationship had crumbled to dust, still honored those promises?
The truth was, such declarations were nothing more than lies spun under the influence of hormones.
“Lily, let’s go home.”
When she showed no intention of taking his hand, no move to walk back w paler.
He stepped forward, intending to grab her hand and simply take her with him.
But before he could touch her, James’s foot slammed hard into his chest.
“Get lost! Stay away from Lily!”
Already unsteady, John went down hard, pain tearing through him.
Once upon a time, Lily would have been heartbroken to see him like this.
Even a small cut on his hand had been enough to make her eyes turn red with worry.
Now, he searched her gaze for a flicker of that concert. ht’s face went even
But no matter how desperately he looked, he found nothing-only the deep, unmasked loathing that eur him to the bone.
She didn’t go back with him.
Instead, he heard her say to James, “Where were we? Oh right-kissing. Then some lunatic showed up out. of nowhere. Such bad luck”
James, I don’t want to see this nutcase. Let’s go home.”
James cast him a cold, warning glance, then effortlessly scooped her up into his arms. “Alright. Let’s go home
She’d called him bad luck. Called him a nutcase…
The pain in his chest made it almost impossible to breathe.
Even so, watching James carry her away, he forced the words out, hoarse and desperate. “Lily, don’t go back with him. I know-you just don’t want me to see Elsa anymore. I promise you! I’ll never see her again. Don’t use James to spite me. Come back to me, okay?”
She hadn’t expected him to say he’d give Elsa up.
Once, she’d dreamed of him caring for her that much-enough to stay away from Elsa completely.
But she had long since broken free from the prison of that obsession.
Whether he saw Elsa or played out some blissful romance with her.. it no longer mattered at all.
Johm..
Her voice made a faint light flare again in his deadened eyes
Every fight they’d had in the past had been because of Elsa.
If she was calling his name now, it must mean that his promise to cut ties to give him another chance.
She still loved him.
But the next second, that fragile light shattered completely, plunging him into the depths of hell
Whether you see Elsa or not-what the hell does that have to do with me? I don’t even want a filthy. cucumber like you anymore. Why would I care who you get tangled up with? I just want you to stop bothering me. I’m really happy with James. When you show up. I just feel disgusted. Have some dignity, and stop making yourself my problem.
“Lily”
The night wind seemed to blow the last trace of color from his lips.
He couldn’t accept that she truly didn’t care about him anymore.
Couldn’t accept that she loved another man.
And after the pain peaked, his voice twisted into something almost deranged as he roared, James doesn’t love you! If he cared even a little, he never would have forced you to divorce him. He’s only being nice now because you’re pregnant with his child. You’re nothing but a tool to him-just someone to carry that baby-
“Who told you James forced me to divorce him?”
Her gaze cut into him with open scorn. “We divorced because of a misunderstanding. Now that it’s cleared up, of course we’re together again. As for James not loving me-what, are you a mindreader? John, don’t use your filthy little thoughts to measure him. He’s nothing like you-selfish, vile. He’s so far above you, you’re not even worthy to carry his shoes.
She’d said it he wasn’t even worn to carry James’s shoes.
John’s face was ashen, his soul hollowed out.
Before he could drag himself out of that crushing despair, James’s cool voice cut in.
“John, I love Lily. My confession and everything I do for her have nothing to do with her pregnancy. I love her simply because she’s Lily. Now stay away from her. Your disgusting face might ruin the baby’s mood.”
His car was parked nearby.
Without sparing John another glance, James carried her to it and drove away.
“Let go of Lily!”
John scrambled to his feet, trying to catch up to James and snatch her back.
But in the blink of an eye, James’s car was already speeding away, leaving him with noth g but a trail of exhaust carried on the wind.
He stood there, watching the taillights shrink into a black speck in the distance. His fingers twitched, and he clicked the button on the recorder in his hand
“Lily likes John… John. I like you! A lifetime’s too short-next life, I’ll still likes and ever. Lily and John will have two little babies. The four of us will never le
Likes John, forever
Listening to her syrupy, love-soaked voice, he wanted to smile, but instead his eyes stung uncontrollably.
Like a man speaking in a fever dream, he whispered again and again, “Lily likes John
Yes, she had promised him forever.
This life wasn’t even a third over-how could she already have changed her heart?
She’d said she wanted two children with him.
She hadn’t given him any- but she was carrying James’s baby.
How could she be so cruel?
He refused to accept it. He refused to believe she’d truly fallen out of love.
No-she was just angry.
As long as he admitted his mistakes and begged her forgiveness, she would soften. She had to.
Without wasting another second, he jumped into his car and tore off toward James’s villa.
James carried Lily straight upstairs to the master bedroom after parking in front of the main house.
They had barely crossed the threshold-hadn’t even shut the door-when he turned, set her down on the table, and crushed his burning mouth against hers.
She hadn’t expected him to kiss hier out of nowhere-let alone with such fierce urgency-and she couldn’t withstand the onslaught.
His kiss grew rougher by the second, and Lily felt like prey caught between a predator’s teeth.
The beast had broken free of its chains and was devouring her whole..
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She instinctively leaned back, overwhelmed by his intensity.
But he gave her no room to retreat. When she leaned back, he followed, tilting forward, one hand clamped- to the back of her head, his searing kiss determined to burn her to ash.
“James, you you need to stop for a second….
This didn’t feel like kissing-it felt like being eaten alive.
Her breath was slipping away, and her trembling voice pleaded for a pause.
But his self-control had long been reduced to cinders by the jealousy roaring!
He trusted her. He knew she wouldn’t go back to John.
But knowing she had once worked herself to the bone to pay for John’s surgery-even letting rich men use her as a punching bag, breaking three ribs-gnawed at him like acid. She had risked her life for John more than once, throwing herself between him and a knife, dragging him from a burning room.
And then there were her repeated vows to John-swearing love in this life and the next.
Remembering her sweet, honeyed voice telling John she liked him, that she’d still want him in the next life, only stoked the fire until he ached to claim every piece of her for himself.
The jealousy in his mind and the jealousy in his chest fed each other like flames and waves, neither able to put the other out.
“Lily, you talked for nearly ten minutes.”
Ten minutes of recorded promises, every word dripping with devotion-to another man.
Ten minutes?
What ten minutes?
She wanted to ask, but the momentary break in his kiss ended as he came back with an even fiercer heat, stealing away her breath and her words
Even so, through the haze, she pieced it together. He was talking about the recording John had played- -the one where she had spoken for almost ten minutes, declaring her love and making promises.
Those words had been true at the time. She’d been sweet on John then, and the vows had flowed easily.
Now, with the sky having collapsed between them, she only found it embarrassing.
She understood James.
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