Lily is light) Chapter 18
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Trent looked up. For a moment, he
thought it was me.
“Honey! You’re back! I’ve looked
everywhere for you…”
He hugged her; tears fell on her,
making her tremble. Then, he snapped back to reality. She didn’t smell like me.
She wasn’t me!
He pushed her onto the table, strangled her hard by the neck. She
struggled, trying to break free.
“Trent! Stop, you’ll kill her!”
Trent’s friends pulled him back. He
released her, coldly surveying the room,
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remembering their faces.
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“I warned you, and you still did it. We‘ re no longer friends.”
Lily.”
“We’re enemies now!”
“If not for you, I wouldn’t have hurt
Trent left. His friends were terrified.
Holloway Industries was so powerful that they couldn’t afford to offend Trent.
Their hearts sank, and they kept
slapping themselves in regret. If they
hadn’t done anything, maybe things
would have been different…
But there were no ifs. Trent returned
home reeking of alcohol. He had printed
out some pictures of him and me and put
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them where he could see them.
Meru
The house felt different without me.
It was like his coffin.
Trent stood by the window, watching
the garden. I must have seen him and
Vanessa kissing that day.
His heart ached, his hand pressed to
his chest. The pain made him
clearer–headed.
“Tang, any news on Lily?”
“…Sorry, Mr. Holloway, nothing.”
He’d sent many people to find me. I’d canceled my information and bought
several tickets using a temporary ID to different places. The Holloway family
was powerful, but not omnipotent.
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Finding me was impossible.
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Invalid information meant I ceased to
exist. Our marriage was null and void. The divorce papers were my final gift to him. The irony was that he only had the papers to remember me by. He laminated it, handling it carefully.
“Lily, where are you? I know I was
wrong. I won’t ask for forgiveness. I just
wanna see you again!”
“Lily, those who hurt you got what
they deserved, including me… I’m
suffering. Come back and see me, okay?”
“Lily…”
He mumbled until he fainted.
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