Chapter 8
After being chased away, Lucas went home and drank for days.
A lot had happened in that time.
First, Henry killed Rosie. Due to the brutality of the murder, he was sentenced to death.
When Sean learned the news, he locked himself in his room and drank constantly.
Later, Lucas found out my whereabouts through his contacts.
But seeing me again broke his heart.
I was so thin my cheeks had sunken in.
Anyone could see I didn’t have long to live.
Lucas had only meant to watch me from afar. But he couldn’t control himself and rushed to hug me.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry.”
Lucas held me and wept. He didn’t know what else to say.
Later when he was sent away, Lucas secretly had people follow me.
Every day he looked at stolen photos on his phone.
He watched as I grew thinner and thinner.
Until the final photo came.
I was lying on a lounge chair in the yard, smiling, but no longer breathing.
I was dead.
That day, Lucas locked himself in his room and cried for a very long time.
He remembered the first time he met me,
He was hiding by a dumpster when I reached out my hand.
“Want to come with me, kid?”
Usually very guarded, that day he inexplicably took my hand.
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Back then he thought he would never let go.
But as an adult, he ended up killing me with his own hands.
The day after I died, Lucas donated all his assets.
Then he jumped off a bridge.
Zoe, I’m coming to the underworld to atone in person.
