He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 312

Up close, her skin was luminous and flawless. Her face was delicate, with long lashes framing slightly upturned eyes, a refined nose, and perfectly shaped lips. It was a face that only grew more captivating the longer he looked. He could still see traces of the young girl he once knew, though the innocent sparkle in her eyes had been replaced by a deep, quiet resilience forged by hardship.

During the years when her family hit rock bottom, Julian had been a silent guardian in the shadows. He knew the face of every person who had bullied her—because he had personally dealt with them. When she didn't have enough to eat, he arranged for neighbors to slip her extra groceries. He even remembered the day she first got her period; she had been walking home in tears, terrified. He had noticed the stain on her pants, awkwardly researched what to do, bought pads from the store, wrote down instructions, and left the bag at her doorstep.

He had watched over her during the darkest chapter of her life. But she never knew, because he never stepped into the light.

Later, he went abroad to study. Between demanding architecture programs and top-secret design projects, his time dwindled, and his secret check-ins became less frequent. When he heard her mother had paid off their debts and bounced back, he assumed she was doing well and finally let go.

He never expected fate to weave them back together like this. She became the wife of a man he considered a friend, while he entered a loveless marriage of convenience with Sylvia.

He still didn't entirely understand his feelings for Scarlett. Was it childhood nostalgia? A protective instinct? Pity for what she had endured? Or was it something deeper, something romantic? He honestly didn't know. He had never been in love. For thirty years, his life had been a calculated equation of academics, design, and corporate management. He was like a precision instrument—flawless in business, but completely lost in the maze of human emotion.

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