Chapter 10
He overheard her saying to a friend, “My biggest dream is to create a game that makes people happy.”
He held onto that thought.
Once, while borrowing a book in the library, he finally entered her line of sight. She thought
it was a chance encounter, but he’d planned it all along.
They gradually grew closer, and she developed feelings for him too.
A confession game he’d coded himself, working through sleepless nights, finally brought them together.
On the day she completed the game, Linda had told him-
“Ivan, I want a love that’s undivided. As long as you stay, I’ll never leave you…”
She stood under a tree, dressed in white, with sunlight casting a soft golden glow around her.
She looked like a goddess shining light into his abyss.
He thought-
I will love her forever.
His pillow was soaked with tears.
Ivan sobbed, his body trembling as he jolted awake from the dream.
A throbbing pain pounded in his temples, and the remnants of the dream felt as vivid as reality.
He wiped his face, looking at his palm smeared with dampness, a hollow laugh escaping from deep in his chest.
“Linda.”
“You broke your promise.”
“You promised you’d never leave me, never abandon me…”
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