He Gave Her Strawberries, Gave Me Hives (Ford and Sylvia) novel Chapter 170

Chapter 23

After she left, Dante finished the soup in the bowl, but the taste had already changed.

Evelyn, who hadn’t made soup in five years, couldn’t possibly recreate the exact same flavor as before. Dante had just been deceiving himself. Now that Evelyn had left again, he had no more excuses.

Three days later, despite his doctor’s advice, Dante discharged himself to attend Evelyn’s send off ceremony.

It was as grand as five years before. This time, Project Artemis aimed even higher, toward seemingly impossible goals, but Evelyn showed no hesitation. She had devoted herself entirely to aerospace work, and whenever she spoke of Project Artemis now, her eyes sparkled with brilliant light.

Dante didn’t choose a front seat but picked a corner position, quietly watching the entire ceremony.

Enduring heartbreaking pain, he watched Evelyn walk toward the laboratory. That door closed before him, and he would never see her again.

Afterward, he went to the reform camp to check on Seraphina’s situation.

Since Evelyn didn’t care about Seraphina’s fate, Dante didn’t plan to keep her there either. If possible, he hoped there would be no connection between Seraphina and him ever again.

But when he inquired, the warden spoke with obvious distaste:

“The day we sent you to the hospital, when I came back, they said Seraphina was already dead. Seems like suicide–she vomited a lot of blood when she died, made quite a mess.” The warden rambled on: “We disposed of the body too. Really should have beaten her to death for daring to attack a military officer. Some nerve she had.”

Dante showed no reaction. Dead was dead. For Seraphina, death might have been the best ending.

Finally, he returned to the housing compound, to his own room.

It was spotless inside. He’d meticulously hoped Evelyn would move back in, but now every corner made him feel suffocated.

All traces of Evelyn had completely disappeared.

He spent several days in the room in a daze until stomach cramps made him realize he hadn’t eaten anything or drunk any water for days, remaining in the same position for who knows how long.

Dante instinctively tried to get up, but thinking of Evelyn, he lay back down. Evelyn had once been locked in a room enduring the same suffering. What did his

ain matter now?

Dante closed his eyes and, in extreme agony, stopped breathing altogether.

When people from the military base hadn’t seen Dante for too long and received no replies to their messages, they came looking for him only to discover Colonel Blackwood had died in his own room.

The incident caused a stir briefly but soon faded into silence.

Evelyn, immersed in her research, would never know about this.

she now hoped only that her efforts could contribute some small progress to aerospace development. As for Dante and Seraphina, she had long forgotten them.

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