Three Years Forgotten, Why Go Crazy When I Say Goodbye? novel Chapter 228

Willow took a sip of the water, her groggy mind finally catching up. The booming outside was the city celebrating the countdown to the New Year. She never could have imagined that her first New Year back in New York would be spent in a hospital room, accompanied by Silas Thorne.

After sleeping, her mind felt incredibly sharp, the heavy exhaustion completely scrubbed from her bones. She sat up. "Mr. Thorne, I'm fully rested now. I'm totally fine. If you have places to be, please go. You really don't have to stay trapped in here with me."

It was New Year's Eve. Every family had plans. She had honestly assumed he was just stopping by to drop off the pastries as a polite gesture. The fact that he had stayed to comfort her, holding space for her emotional breakdown, was more than she could ever ask for.

"But I don't have anywhere to go," Silas said, his dark eyes looking devastatingly lonely.

Anywhere to go? What did that even mean?

Willow frowned in confusion. "It's a major holiday. Shouldn't you be celebrating with your family?"

"Logically, yes. But my entire family is back in Seattle. I'm completely alone here in New York." Silas dialed up the melancholy, his tone dripping with quiet isolation. "Even if I go back to my penthouse, it's just going to be a massive, empty, freezing room."

A sharp pang of sympathy hit her. When she had lived on the West Coast, the holidays had always been the hardest part. The brutal homesickness would claw at her, but her relentless work schedule made it impossible to fly back. She knew exactly how suffocating that kind of isolation felt.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to bring up a sore subject."

"You didn't." Silas stepped slightly closer, his voice dropping into a low, intimate hum. "It's just... spending the holidays utterly alone in a city that isn't yours is pretty miserable."

Willow thought for a second. "Well, if you don't mind the terrible atmosphere, we could stay up and ring in the New Year together. I mean, I'm all alone too."

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