Sonia felt like all time froze at that moment. And even the flow of air was still. The image of Dixon falling into the abyss became the last sight in her eyes. And then the whole world collapsed, as if the end of the world had come. Her nervousness was tense. She hissed heartbreaking...
"Dixon!!!"
The wind rolled Sonia's last cry and swept over the ears of everyone present. Even Victor was shocked. His face turned pale. Sitting in the car, he was shivering. Carney wanted to comfort the boy. But the next second, the boy cried.
"Mr..." That calling was on the tip of his tongue. But Victor opened the car door and stumbled over.
"Dad... Dad..."
He rushed into the crowd in a panic, only to be stopped by Ricky with one hand as he approached the edge of the cliff. Ricky dragged him back, "Go back!"
"No...!!!" Victor shouted with red eyes, struggling desperately, "Let go of me, let go of me...!!!"
Dixon fell! Dixon died along with Cecil!
"Go find them! What are you waiting for!"
Caldwell roared, "Search the abyss! Find them! I want to see them alive, or at least, their body."
Sonia knelt on the edge of the cliff. She was not back to her senses. Carl came up to drag her back by her arms.
Carl said, "It's dangerous there. Don't get so close."
Sonia felt her soul had been completely separated from her body. She stumbled to her feet, looked at Maria who was crying on the floor and looked at Old Mrs. Borris who had fainted and was being rushed to the hospital. And finally, it was Helena who walked step by step to Sonia's side. And as they looked at each other, they burst into tears together.
Helena trembled and reached out to hold Sonia. Helena took Sonia's hands in hers and said with a choked sob of despair, "Dixon... He said to me last night... If he... If something happened to him, he entrusted me to tell you a few words..."
"He said he was sorry. You have a long life ahead of you. Please live it up."
It turned out that Dixon had long been prepared to have this day. He released the tiger to the mountain and put a long line to catch a big fish. He had planned everything. And he even predicted at the end that Cecil would bring in another bullet in his pistol!
All his intentions were to protect Sonia, to take everything into account, to protect this... This woman he had hurt so completely.
In a gesture of atonement, he took his own life as compensation. Even if he would never return, he would not hesitate to do so.
As long as... as long as Sonia lived well.
Sonia suddenly understood the meaning of that sentence. "Some people may bring others to life just by living."
She felt as if her body was being torn in half. And the blood kept gushing out along with the stabbing pain.
The wind whistling in her ears sounded like the slaps on her face. Sonia covered her face as tears kept falling down.
In the end, Sonia crouched down and cried out. Clutching the dirt, blood seeping from her fingernails. Carl pulled her up. But she struggled. With the sound of sirens and ambulances blaring behind her, just like the day Sonia was kidnapped and stabbed several times and fell into Dixon's arms.
Later, when she was dragged to the ambulance by Carl, she was still dizzy. She always felt that what she saw was not real. The one who fell, was it really Dixon?
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