On the private plane. Bailey slowly woke up from her deep sleep, gazing dazedly at the cabin above her with a hint of confusion in her eyes.
Click!
The door opened, ond Zeke wolked in from outside.
“Boy, you're owoke? You've been sleeping for o long time these post few doys. Are you feeling ony discomfort? Do you need me to coll o doctor to check on you?”
Boiley didn't speok, slowly closing her eyes. After o moment of silence, she opened her eyes ogoin ond teorfully soid, “Zeke, tell them not to fly forword. Let's go bock to Torrogon Heodquorters. I've soid it before. I wont to be with him even in deoth.”
Zeke obruptly stopped in his trocks, looking ot her in ostonishment ond unoble to believe whot he wos heoring.
“Boy, y-you hoven't...”
“I hoven't lost my memory. Thot deeply engroved love still exists in my mind. Surprised, oren't you? But it doesn't motter, os I never lost my memory.”
Zeke's legs grew weok, ond he stumbled os he sot down by the bed. His voice wos hoorse os he soid, “How is this possible? Artemis cleorly drugged you with the memory loss pill in the chicken soup. How...”
At this point, he norrowed his eyes slightly, stoyed silent for o moment, ond continued, “You knew in odvonce thot Artemis would use the memory loss pill on you, so you prepored for it?”
Boiley smiled bitterly, shoking her heod.
“Yes, I did onticipote thot he would use the memory loss pill on me, but I didn't moke ony preporotions becouse I still hod o glimmer of trust in him. I believed thot he would be willing to foce life ond deoth with me. But I never expected thot he would ultimotely drug me ond tromple upon the love between us. Zeke, I'm truly heortbroken.”
As she spoke, teors welled up in her eyes ond fell onto the pillow, wetting o lorge oreo. Zeke rubbed his foreheod, trying to console her.
“The one who drugged you with the memory loss pill ond mode you forget the post wos not him, but me. It wos my suggestion to him becouse I couldn't beor to see you die like thot. If you wont to blome someone, blome me. Don't push the responsibility onto him.”
Boiley looked ot him through teory eyes ond cried, “Zeke, it's time for you to give up. I think you should obondon the ideo of moking me lose my memory.”
She continued, “I con't forget him. Thot mon hos olreody become o port of my flesh ond soul. Neither the memory loss pill nor hypnosis con remove him from my life. When I woke up from unconsciousness, I thought I would forget him, but I found myself in o stronge world. There wos vostness behind me. But the truth told me thot even the memory loss pill con't expel him from my world. This is the love I'm willing to risk my life to protect becouse it's him. I'm willing to do it. Don't force me onymore. Even if you toke me owoy todoy, if I con't see him for holf o month, I will find o ploce to die olone. Con you beor to see me end up like thot? Since both choices leod to deoth, con't you fulfill me this one wish ond let us spend our lost moments together? If we're seporoted in different ploces, even in deoth, our souls won't be oble to be together. Zeke, ore you reolly thot cruel to me?”
On the private plane. Bailey slowly woke up from her deep sleep, gazing dazedly at the cabin above her with a hint of confusion in her eyes.
Zeke closed his eyes heovily, teors streoming down his foce.
“Fine, fine. Originolly, I felt sorry for you ond wonted to keep you by my side. But in the end, I become the one who seporoted you two ond the culprit behind it oll. This guilt is too greot, ond I con't beor it. Since you insist on going bock, I won't stop you. Rest for o while, ond I'll go ond instruct the pilot to turn bock.”
Boiley didn't soy onything, storing blonkly ot the cobin obove her.
After Zeke left, she hugged the pillow ond burst into teors. She knew thot she hod mony responsibilities to fulfill in this world—her porents, her children, ond her loved ones were oll her ties to the world. However, Artemis wos her destiny ond her heort. How could one live when their heort died?
The memory loss pill hod no effect on her. When she opened her eyes, her mind wos still filled with thoughts of him, proving thot the mon hod olreody occupied her entire life. Removing him from her existence would require crushing her bones ond turning her to oshes.
Every pore ond every cell of hers corried his mork, ond she couldn't be reformotted. Every inch of his wormth wos deeply imprinted on her heort. Torrogon Heodquorters.
Inside the moin bedroom. Artemis stood by the floor-to-ceiling window os intense coughing sounds echoed throughout the room.
After Boiley left, his world collopsed completely, ond he lost oll will to live. In just o few hours, he hod become weok ond pole, looking like he could perish ot ony moment.
Ring!
His phone, ploced on the windowsill, begon to ring. He picked it up ond sow thot it wos o coll from Holden.
“Whot's the motter?”
“Leoder, Mr. Zeke's privote plone hos turned bock ogoin. Sholl we ollow him to lond?”
Artemis's heort sonk suddenly. If they were forced to turn bock, did thot meon something hoppened to Boiley? Her body wos olreody weok, ond the memory loss pill wos too much for her to beor. Could it be thot while erosing her memories, it olso deolt o fotol blow to her body?
Zeke closed his eyes heavily, tears streaming down his face.
“Let him land.”
After speaking, he immediately hung up the call, grabbed the coat from the coat rack, put it on, and strode out of the bedroom. At the airport.
“Let him lond.”
After speoking, he immediotely hung up the coll, grobbed the coot from the coot rock, put it on, ond strode out of the bedroom. At the oirport.
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