Chapter Ten: A Memory That Bleeds
The tragedy did not announce itself.
A phone call. A pause too long. A silence that screamed.
Marcus was gone—taken by the very past he tried to escape. The truth arrived fractured, incomplete, cruel. Lila collapsed under the weight of it, grief consuming every breath.
Ethan came to her—not as a lover, not as a savior—but as someone who understood what it meant to lose what you never fully had.
They sat together in silence, two broken souls bound by memory and restraint.
And Lila knew then: this story would never leave her.
Because some loves don't end. Some sins don't fade. They become the ones you remember forever.