Chapter 19
Ella’s eyes turned red when she heard Harrison’s words.
“Oh, Harry. What’s the point of all this?” she choked out,
“Scarlett loved you so much, and you never cherished her. Now that she’s gone, you think about her day and night. But no matter how many dreams you have, she’s not coming back.”
Harrison frowned. He knew that dream wasn’t just some subconscious longing for Scarlett. It felt strange, like it had actually happened.
In the dream, he and Scarlett had been engaged since childhood, just like in real life. But in that world, she never joined the aerospace project. Instead, she had married him, just as planned.
And he never saw Hazel for what she really was and never realized his own feelings for Scarlett, so he had treated her terribly. For over 20 years of marriage, he never orice her a gift and never took her on a date.
bought
Even their intimacy felt like a routine obligation. It only happened once a month because Scarlett had requested it on her 35th birthday.
Not only that, but in the dream, he had never let go of Hazel, either.
He hadn’t physically cheated, but he had given her all of his love and attention. And so, for more than 20 years, his marriage to Scarlett had been nothing but an empty shell.
Then, when he was 55 years old, his pharmaceutical company faced a major scandal. If he looked into the accident closely, he would see Hazel was actually involved.
By then, she was married to a useless, spoiled trust–fund brat. In the dream, Harrison seethed with jealousy, but he still gave that man plenty of business opportunities just to ensure Hazel lived comfortably.
But the man was an absolute disaster. A simple drug manufacturing job turned into a catastrophe a bacterial contamination that killed countless people.
Harrison was drowning in damage control.
Then, one night, Hazel called him. She told him she was scared of a thunderstorm and couldn’t sleep. She even said her husband was away, and she didn’t want to be alone, so she asked if he could come over.
And like the pathetic fool he was, dream–Harrison dropped everything and drove to her in the middle of a blizzard.
But the roads were slick with ice, and he was exhausted from overwork. In the end, he crashed and died at the age of 55.
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