The Year She Stopped Being Crazy for Him novel Chapter 444

His only impression of Cora during high school was her silence.

She was always looking down, occasionally grouped with random cliques, but it was glaringly obvious she didn't fit in. She was just background noise to them.

Cora didn't care about the petty drama in class, and she was absent for more than half the school year.

His elders and his older sister spoiled him relentlessly. Even among his wealthy peers, who had strict allowances during their student years, he had an unlimited black card and jetted across the globe whenever he pleased.

Even someone as fiercely independent as Hassan had sighed in envy at his lifestyle back then.

If the later tragedies hadn't happened, his life would have been flawlessly perfect and entirely free.

A dull, uninteresting girl like Cora had never even blipped on his radar.

He didn't even have the passing interest to speak to her.

Yet, somehow, after all the rushed and chaotic years had passed, he had fallen in love with that quiet girl.

Driven by an aching curiosity about her likes and dislikes, he found himself asking the household staff what her favorite meals were when she still lived there.

Learning that she actually loved photography, a man who had never cared for taking pictures suddenly started carrying a camera everywhere.

He began to drown in regret. Why hadn't he fallen for her sooner?

If he had loved her earlier, he could have understood her better. He could have walked beside her through every high and low.

He started vividly imagining lives they never got to live.

If he had loved her in high school, how would things have turned out? Would everything be different?

They would have had over a decade of memories together. They would have become irreplaceable pieces of each other's souls, painting brilliant strokes across each other's histories.

If he had loved her earlier, she could have been like any other carefree teenage girl. Her memories would have been filled with shopping with friends, traveling, teasing each other, crying, and studying side by side.

She wouldn't have had to suffer so much.

Sitting alone in the darkness of his car, Jude watched every single leaked video to the end.

He wanted to tear Lara apart with his bare hands.

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Sunriver Residences.

After the doorbell chimed incessantly for a while, Natalie finally walked over to answer it.

She knew exactly who was outside.

Hassan had texted her the moment he arrived downstairs.

When she ignored him, he simply came up and started ringing the bell.

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