Chapter 253
“I don’t believe it. You must be lying to me. He couldn’t have done so much for you. It’s impossible! You’re lying, you’re all lying to me.” Felix staggered, his frail body shivering in the wind as if he would fall at any moment.
I didn’t want to believe it, but his eyes were filled with profound pain.
Such pain couldn’t be faked.
Suddenly, I wanted to believe that he really liked me.
Unfortunately, his affection came far too late.
“Felix, there was never anything between us. Now, you have Lilac, and you’ve promised to be with her. Focus your thoughts on her; don’t waste them on someone irrelevant like me.
“Felix, for the sake of our childhood years, let me remind you one last time. We’ll never be able to return to the past, so cherish the present.”
We had attracted quite a crowd of onlookers watching from a distance. I didn’t want to become the center of gossip again, so I turned to leave quickly.
I didn’t know what Felix’s expression was. I only heard his cries behind me. “Lulu, come
back. Don’t leave me, please!”
His plea was filled with a despair akin to facing death.
I turned back.
Felix’s tall, lean body staggered unsteadily as he clutched his chest hard. His eyes were brimming with scalding tears, his once radiant lips trembling. His whole being emanated
sadness.
It made me recall the past.
That Thanksgiving during my senior year of high school, I experienced devastating torture that was just as painful.
It was me five years ago.
It became him five years later.
This damned love, why did it leave so much regret, always bringing people to the point of powerlessness?
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Tears fell unwittingly for Felix’s belated affection, as well as for the pain and regrets that couldn’t be mended.
If he had given me a sliver of hope back then, things wouldn’t have come to this situation today.
Back then, I endured the pain and tried to let him go.
Now, he regretted it and wanted me to open my heart to him again.
But I no longer knew whether there was still room to accommodate him if I opened my heart again.
Did Felix, who let his feelings waver between two women, still deserve my affection?
Times had changed, and the past couldn’t be revisited.
There was no turning back.
“Felix, it’s all in the past. Don’t be like this. Move on with Lilac,” I cried silently. I was like a wildflower battered by wind and rain, unable to find my direction.
Felix finally cried out loud, extending a hand toward me. “What about you, Lulu? Are you willing to come back to me? I love you, I truly do.
“I promise to stay with you forever, never to betray you, and to give you my all. I can do anything as long as you come back to me. Will you?”
Tears streamed down my face.
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