I Deleted You Traitor Even My Blade Forgot Your Name novel Chapter 42

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

So in his mind, everything I did was just a transaction.

I don’t say anything else. Just open the door and get out.

I don’t look back–just walk up the stairs one step at a time.

When I get home, I close the door, lean back against it, and slowly slide down to the floor.

I pull the card out of my pocket and stare at it as tears start falling.

Then pick up my phone and call Jett’s lawyer.

“Parker, Jett getting out?”

“Yeah. They dropped the case. He’ll be home tonight.”

“Thanks.”

Click.

I start deleting every number in my phone.

Then walk over to the empty wall, pick up a pen, and write one last Post–It note.

[Harlow, go somewhere nobody knows you. Then forget everything.]

The next day, Jett gets released.

He comes to my place, sees the empty apartment and that note on the wall, and loses it.

By then, I’m already on a train heading to another city.

A year later, Dax’s career crashes after the “Cleansing” scandal plus more stories coming out about him bullying newcomers. He falls hard from his top–tier

tatus.

Brynn gets exposed for sabotaging other actresses multiple times, and the “fractured arm” Incident gets proven to be staged. She gets blacklisted across the nternet and leaves the industry completely.

They threw a huge wedding, but on the day of, neither the bride nor groom showed up.

tumor is they had a massive fight in the dressing room. Dax called off the wedding right there and exposed everything about Brynn stealing the necklace and raming me.

ater, Dax dissolved his company, sold off all his assets, and paid compensation to everyone he’d hurt.

Then he lost his mind.

fe locked himself in the house we used to share in that small town. Every day, all he does is stick Post Its on a blank wall

Wake up.”

Brush teeth.”

Wait for Harlow to come home.”

le’s living in his own fantasy, thinking I just went out and will be back soon.

Every day he goes to the flower shop we used to visit and buys a bouquet of sunflowers to put in my old root.

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When they die, he buys new ones.

Day after day, year after year.

And me? I’m living with Jett in a city where it’s spring all year round.

My illness keeps getting worse–my memory’s regressed to childhood.

I don’t remember Dax, don’t remember Brynn, don’t remember any of that painful past.

The happiest part of my day is when Jett brings me my favorite candy apples.

He holds my hand and we walk through the park while he tells me stories.

In his stories, there’s a girl named Harlow who has a brother who loves her very much, and her life is full of nothing but sunshine and candy apples.

One day, Jett brings home an old voice recorder.

He says some guy named Remington had someone deliver it.

press play. A man’s raspy voice comes through.

He’s reading a letter.

Harlow, my sunshine, I’m sorry.”

I’m sorry I lost you.”

I’ve been looking for you for so long. Everyone says you’re dead. I don’t believe them.”

I know you’re just hiding, waiting for me to find you.”

Don’t worry, I’ll find you soon.”

This time, I’m never letting go of your hand again.”

listen to the unfamiliar voice and look up at fett, confused.

Jett, who is he? Whys he crying?”

Joos at me with red rimmed eyes.

fe turns off the recorder and rubs my head

Nobody toportant

Harlow, want some cantly apples?

Yeah!

jump up happily

in the sunlight, my smile is innocent and carefree

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