Chapter 84

Samuel beld Shirley’s hand in his palm. Het hand was small and soft Her face was flawless, smooth, and radiant, her eyes shimmered like penis. –

Her smile was sweet and pore, with a best of innocence and bashfulness that made her all the more captivating She was everything good in the world, yet he carried a heart filled with darkness.

Three months ago, she had hugged him from behind. She had so much trust and dependency on him. She spoke softly and was t pet married, okay?”

Samuel closed his eyes in anguish as if trying to block out the memory, full of hope. “Samuel, I’ll be graduating soon. When I do, let’s Shirley had completely surrendered herself to him. She loved him so much that she was willing to go to Earth’s end for him. She would’ve done anything to stay by his side.

She was kind, beautiful, and inteligeet. She could have lived a perfect life, yet she chose to embrace his brokenness. She cooked for him, stood by him through his struggles, faced dangers with him, and fought against the world for his sake.

No one could understand how Samuel tel.

Hetke a child who had lost his favorite toy, the one thing that brought him comfort and security. Now, he was left adrift, terrified, and unsure of what to do.

Samuel thought of that morning Shirley had come to him, clutching his prosthetic like it was her deline. Her eyes held a thousand words she couldn’t bring herself to say He had known, even then, that the prosthetic was just an excuse to see him But he had asked her to leave. She’d tried so hard to hold onto him, but he had turned his back on her, letting her slip through his fingers without a second thought.

In her despair, she had reached out to someone else.

Heder good her so someone else could take his place. The woman he abandoned became someone else’s wife.

Now, as he looked back, he realized he had nothing left. The woman who had loved him unconditionally for six years, who vowed to stay by his side tocever, had entirely vanished from his Samuel couldn’t understand why his chest felt so tight, why fear and panic coursed through him like a storm, He stated at the empty sola where Shirley had just been lying, and his heart felt just as hollow It was as if he had lost everything in a single night.

Her name kept ringing in his mind. Suddenly, Samuel bolted our of the villa.

The white Porsche reared through the streets, running red light after red light.

Finally, he screeched to a halt outside Brook’s apartment. Without hesitation, he pounded on the door with all his strength “Brook! Get out here!”

Brook had just gone to bed, but the noise jolted him awake. Moving lazily, he got dressed and shuffled to the door.

The moment he opened it, a fist came flying at him..

Book had anticipated it and stepped back just in ti He placed at Samuel, his tone icy. “What the hell is wrong with you? Losing it in the middle of the night?

Samuel’s bloodshot eyes glinted like those of a wounded animal. He grabbed Brook by the collar and shouted, his voice hoarse and cam, “Why didn’t you stop her? Don’t you like her? How could you just stand there and let her marry that devil. Benjamin?”

All of Samuel’s usual composure was Booked coldly, his tone calm and taunting “Drop the act.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

care you even talking about?”

Brook’s deliberate indifference only added to Samuel’s fire.

Samuel’s hands rightened around Brook’s collar, his voice trembling with frustration, “I’m talking about Shirley! Are you satisfied now?”

Brook shoved Samuel’s hands away and looked him dead in the eye. “And who are you to Shiley? What gives you the right to interfere in her life?”

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