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From the ambivalent look on Athena’s face, Ewan knew his wife hadn’t been aware of his lost memories afore time, and it stomped his heart on how lifeless their marriage had been, how lifeless he had made it.
If only he could go back in time, he would have changed a lot of things.
Because if Athena was truly innocent of the accusation six years ago, there was a possibility she hadn’t been aware of her father’s plan.
Considering this possibility almost dampened his hearty spirit.
Ewan had to let go of the matter for now, in order to focus on his discussion with Athena.
He didn’t think she would appreciate him being distracted.
“Yes, I do have amnesia. I can’t remember my childhood.” He finally answered. “I had an accident when I was around twelve years old…”
Athena consciously kept her face bland, while her mind ran helter skelter.
Hearing the confirmatory truth from Ewan unsettled her.
Why had she been kept in the dark about this?
Hadn’t Zack been aware of it, or had he kept it out of her reach as usual, believing it wasn’t necessary information for her to digest?
Getting the brain scan had been really numbing. She had the lab expert run it three times before accepting it!
She furrowed her eyebrows, and rested on her chair squarely. “You don’t remember a singular thing?”
Ewan nodded. “Apart from a singular memory that keeps popping up in my dream.”
Athena’s curiosity was piqued. “Is it something you can share? It will help understand the results from your brain scan.”
Ewan inhaled softly. “I think so.”
“Let me hear it then”
Ewan splayed his hands on his thighs, preparing himself to recount the dream from a day ago. “It’s about the accident, how it actually happened. He paused, and looked at the large window that allowed him to see the bustling city and sky.
“In the dream, I’m hurrying to meet a friend. When I got to our meeting point, near a river, she’d been waiting for a while. I apologized for my late arrival, and then we got around playing. While play–dancing, I missed a step and fell into the river…”
A pause, where he reverted his gaze to Athena.
“I can’t swim. She couldn’t swim either. Yet she jumped into the river to save me. She pulled me out of the deep waters despite the strange current. But when I was woken up by shouts, she
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was nowhere around me… I deduced that she had left to call for help. When I woke up again, she was by my bedside weeping.”
Athena folded her hands across her chest, drafting Ewan’s attention to her chest region.
Ewan instantly reverted his gaze to the window.
“The girl, who is she?” Athena asked, picking another note pad from her drawer.
Ewan hesitated before answering the question. A second later, he decided to say the truth as he
knew it.
“In the dream, her face was actually blurry. So I couldn’t know for sure who she was. But when I finally woke up from the coma, I saw Fiona beside me weeping. I concluded she was the one. because she wore the same bracelet as the girl who saved me.”
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