Chapter 25
Suddenly, memories of Meurdith and Joshna’s past Clashed through hermind.
When she was six, joshma had held her hand and told her parents that he would take her If they didn’t want her.
When she was on, Joshua matrized all hiscourage and confessed to her, telling berthat he would only love her for the rest of his life.
When she was 23, Joshma spent hundreds of millions of dollars to ask for her hand in antiage. He’d begged her neverte leave him because he would then go crazy.
When she was 24, before the date of thelo wedding, Joshua chratedogher with Angel and started lying to hernumerosiones. He also started staying out late without coming back home.
When she was the “fled helt three days before their wedding date. From that day noward, the never saw joshura’s Lace again.
When she was 15, the finally met again, but they were now forever separated from each other.
The last bit of hatred Meredith had for joshua dissipated at that moment,
she didn’t hate him anymore simply because he wasn’t anyone limportant to let anyone.
To her, Joshua had been nothing but a passing figure in here
Meredith never thought that she would be attending yet another funeral past half a month after attending joshua’s funeral,
This time, the deceased was Angel Saddler.
Angel died shortly after learning that joshuabad passed away while she was still in prison.
she hadn’t died from heartache. Rather, she had died from fear. She had lost her biggest support. She would be penniless after she was released
Angel had been so overcome with tear and distress that she developed a mental illness and went senile. After being sent to a mental institution, she’d then killed herself by jmping off a building.
The divorce between Joshua and Angel hadn’t been finalized yet when she suddenly lost her mind and stabbed joshna in the quis. So, legally, they were still
husband and wire
And according to the rules back home, Angel was ultimately buned next to Joshua in a couple’s burial plot,
Meredith stared at the two tombstones next to each other and chuckded at how ridiculous it bomed out to be
Perhaps this was a good thing, after all. Joshua and Angel could continue being entangled with each other, even in the depths of hell, so that they’d be too busy to bother anyune else agam
After attending both funerals, Meredith and Lake went back to Newland together.
She leaned against Luke’s chest with his arms wrapped around her as they watched TV in the villa Lake held her hand and looked at her silently, his eyes full of
Ever since coming back, Meredith had been feeling moody and down in the dumps. She seemed to have lost that joyful spark of hers. So, Luke decided to take ber out on a shon getaway.
He brought her to many places, from the famous lavender fields to the alpine mountains and fimally the maple tree groves in various different countries. Only then was Meredith back to herold, cheetal self again.
She turned and looked at Lake, who was driving and telling her all sorts of lame jokes to make her laugh and held bis hand.
She’d finally thought everything through atter attending both funerals. She also made her feelings for Lake clear.
one beautiful evening with a majestic sunset as their background, Meredith tool the initiative and kissed the lips
“Luke, let’s get married.”
Meredith and Luke held their wedding at a church a year later.
As the plann notes began to play, Meredith stated down the def her pristine white wedding gown, walking toward Luke at the altar.
After exchanging rings, Luke then slid her ring onto her ring finger. He was usually calm, composed, and collected, but his eyes were red and brimming with tears today. A few stray drops even found their way to his cheek.
“Thank you, Merry, for marrying me.
Meredith smiled widely, her eyes also filled with unshed tears.
“Thank you, Luke, for loving me and giving me a home.”
The simple ceremony was over. Luke and Meredith then exclunged a sweet kiss as the wedding bells went off.
Life wasn’t any different for Luke and Meredith, even after marriage
She still woke up every morning to see him smiling lovingly at her.
She still got a good night kiss from him every night before falling asleep.
They still spent almost every second of their lives together, traveling the world and going to places they’d never been to After all, they had each other for the rest of their lives.
