My Love Until the Last Goodbye (Mary and Maximus) novel Chapter 949

Suddenly, Flora started moving restlessly, as if she somehow knew Peter needed a moment alone with Valerie. Celeste excused herself and took her daughter to check her diaper. Seeing them leave, Valerie felt nervous. Just because she could never be with Peter didn’t mean she didn’t still feel something deep inside her.

“Valerie… Can we talk?” Peter asked calmly.

Valerie, somewhat incredulous, couldn’t say no.

“Yeah, go ahead…” she said with a hint of worry.

“What were we, you and I?” Peter asked, genuinely curious.

“Why are you asking?” Valerie responded, a little surprised.

“I want to be completely honest with you. I’ve been trying to piece together my memories. I’ve talked to Celeste, my son, Ethan, Serenity, Maximus, and even Marcus. But there’s one gap I haven’t been able to fill. That gap is you. And now that you’re here, I want to know what we were.”

“Peter…” was all Valerie could say in response to what she had just heard.

“Everyone expects me to regain my memories at some point… But the harsh, cold truth is that my doctor told me they’re not coming back. In trying to save me from having any future deficiencies, my memories were sacrificed.”

“Does everyone know?” Valerie asked, shocked.

“No, only Celeste. She’s been helping me connect the dots. But to be honest, no matter how much I try to piece together everything they tell me, I feel like the man they describe is someone else.”

“Why do you say that?”

“When I woke up from my long sleep, the first thing I saw was the silhouette of a woman. That woman was Celeste. Seeing her there, by my side, with such a joyful expression—I didn’t know how to react. At first, I was afraid. And as the days went by and everyone told me about my life, I started coming to terms with my reality.

"I won’t lie to you—waking up and thinking I was still 25, only to look in the mirror and see the face of a 48-year-old man, wasn’t easy. But if there’s one thing I can say, it’s that my life is completely different from what I had planned back then.