Eight Years Lost A Love Unclaimed (Ariella) novel Chapter 49

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Jessica’s Epilogue 

When I got the call from the police, I had just finished fixing a leak in the kitchen. 

thought it was Ethan coming back, asking me to pick him up, but the officer said 

he 

was in critical condition. 

It was my second time going to Maplewood. Detective Parker picked me up, and 

on 

the way, he told me that Ethan had regained his memory. He remembered his real 

name and his fiancée, but his fiancée had passed away due to illness, and he was 

in a 

lot of pain. 

Tears immediately welled up in my eyes. “So, does he want to join her?” 

Detective Parker shook his head. “Sienna wouldn’t have allowed that. He promised. 

her he’d live on.” 

“This was an accident. He got hit by a car while saving a little girl.” 

I wiped my tears, too choked up to speak. How is he?” 

Detective Parker looked out the window, silent. It wasn’t until I saw the doctor 

that I 

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understood why. The doctor said, “The patient has no will to live. His family 

should 

talk to him as much as possible.” 

Seeing Ethan lying there, I was at a loss. All I could do was call his name. “Ethan, 

our 

restaurant is just starting to take off. We just got married. Please, wake up.” 

But there was no response from the man on the bed. He was determined to leave 

us, 

and there was nothing we could do to stop him. 

“Ethan, I’m sorry. I changed your life. I was too selfish. This is all my fault. I’m the 

one 

who should be gone, not you. Please, please stay.” 

No matter what I said, there was no reaction from him. 

Seeing him like this, I remembered the first time I met him. My father’s fishing 

boat 

had found him, barely alive, covered in wounds. My father, a kind man, believed 

it 

was fate and borrowed a lot of money to pay for Ethan’s treatment. It put our 

already debt–ridden family even further in the hole. The debt collectors came 

early, 

taking everything of value, tearing down our small, shabby restaurant, and breaking 

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my father’s legs. 

When Ethan recovered, he was overwhelmed with guilt and was determined to 

pay 

off our debt. Together, we spent two years clearing it. Just as he was about to 

leave, 

my father fell ill. On his deathbed, he entrusted me and our small restaurant to 

Ethan. 

Ethan knew my father’s dying wish, so he quietly expanded our small restaurant. I 

knew he was always searching for his family, and we even filed a report together. 

But 

the small town on the island was so underdeveloped that no information about 

him 

could be found. I also knew he wanted to leave the island to find his family, but he 

was tied down by me and the restaurant. 

After he agreed to marry me, he stopped searching for his family. He promised to 

fulfill my father’s wish and take good care of me. I was relieved, but I was also 

terrified of losing him. When Detective Parker and the others showed up, I 

became 

even more suspicious, especially when Sienna appeared. 

It was almost instinctual–when I saw Sienna look at Ethan, I knew they might 

have 

had a past together.. 

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But so what? 

I was the one standing by Ethan’s side now I was the one who was going to marry 

him. 

Besides, after five years together, I knew Ethan well enough. 

He was the best man I’d ever met, someone who always kept his promises. Since 

he 

promised to be with me, I knew he wouldn’t back out. 

But maybe it was guilt, or maybe I had an inkling that the person Ethan had been 

searching for all these years was Sienna. I started deliberately getting close to her, 

subtly telling her about my five years with Ethan. 

I told her how good Ethan was to me, how much he loved me. I wanted her to 

know 

that Ethan would be happy with me, that he loved me now. And I believed that no 

one in the world loved Ethan Harris more than I did. 

Even without the accident, I had already guessed that she was the one Ethan had 

been looking for. 

But Ethan didn’t recognize her, and she didn’t reveal the truth. I thought she was 

stepping aside for me. While I felt guilty, I was also relieved–relieved that I had 

secured my happiness. But I never imagined that she was sick 

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She wasn’t stepping aside for me; she just didn’t want to make things difficult for 

Ethan. Even in death, she was thinking of him. 

I looked at the man on the bed and confessed the truth that had been tormenting 

me: “You were right to blame me. After we filed the report, there was a lead, but I 

kept it from you. I couldn’t bear to lose you. I truly wanted to be with you.” 

I wiped away my tears. “Now I know I was wrong. It’s my fault you and Sienna were 

separated by death. If it weren’t for me, you two would have been together by 

now, 

Stop 

and Sienna wouldn’t have gotten sick. It’s all my fault. If you want to leave, I won’t 

you.” 

As soon as I finished speaking, Ethan’s fingers twitched. I thought he was waking 

up, 

but then the monitors started beeping, and a flat line appeared on the screen… 

“Ethan!” 

Ethan was gone. I buried him and Sienna together. 

They were meant to be together. It was my fault they missed out on five years. It 

Was 

my fault they didn’t recognize each other. 

I am a sinner. The only way I can atone is by reuniting them. 

I’ll spend the rest of my days on the island, praying for them day and 

As for me, I’ll spend. 

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A once–in–a–century thunderstorm paralyzed the entire city’s traffic. 

The movie theater closed. I had no umbrella and couldn’t get a cab. I could only limp towards the street in my heels. 

My phone rang. It was Leo calling. 

He asked me impatiently, 

“Where are you? A married woman out this late and not home yet.” 

My silence fueled his annoyance. 

“Are you mute, Gigi?” 

“I’m at the Panaxes Movie Theater.” 

Hearing this, Leo finally remembered our date. 

After a few seconds of silence, he said coldly, 

“Send me your location. I’m coming over now.” 

I didn’t plan to let him pick me up, but someone accidentally bumped into me. 

I fell into the mud. My left ankle swelled up, and I couldn’t walk far. 

One hour and twenty–three minutes after I sent my location. 

In the storm, I curled up miserably and checked my messages with him one last time before my phone died. 

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Leo didn’t come, and there was no message. 

Eventually, a kind driver took me to a nearby hotel.