“You knew that I asked for nothing more from you, I just wanted you to like me.”
“lovan, you said you had already liked me a long time ago, I believe it. But your liking, it was too lukewarm, you always kept your fondness for me at ninety–nine percent, always dangling that one percent over me.
Kristen’s voice began to tremble as she choked out each word, “I was a human, I felt pain, I got tired. Why did you think I would give endlessly without an conditions?”
Jovan shook his head in pain, suddenly his knees went weak, and he knelt in front of her, tremblingly pleading.
“It’s not like that, I was just scared. I’m afraid that you’re only staying with me because of the system, and I’m afraid that once the liking level reaches one hundred percent, you will louve.”
“I couldn’t lose you. I just couldn’t lose you.”
The painful memories of the past seemed to engulf her once again.
Kristen wiped away the tears on her face, pushed Jovan away, and shook her head. “But what happened has already happened, Jovan. I have been completely devastated by you. Please don’t torment me anymore.”
She just wanted to start a new life.
Seeing the pain on Kristen’s face, Jovan felt as if he had been punched hard, and he sat in a disheveled and desolate manner in the same spot.
With tears in her eyes, Kristen spoke, “Today was supposed to be my engagement banquet. If you truly have even the slightest bit of guilt towards me, please don’t come and ruin one of the few moments of happiness I have left, okay?”
Jovan couldn’t say a word at all.
He finally understood that the damage he had caused to Sarahi was irreparable.
Kristen disappeared in the lounge.
Beside, Ernesto stared blankly at all of this. His heart already understood that he would never have a mother again in the future.
Suddenly, countless sadness and sorrow surged up, and he punched Jovan, saying, “It’s all your fault, it’s all your fault that mom left, I don’t have a mom anymore!
With that, Ernesto burst into
rears.
Jovan silently embraced him, tears slid down from the corner of his eyes.
“We were all guilty.”
They were all sinners, sinners who hurt Sarahi.
Crimes were too numerous to be recorded.
Sarahi was right, they didn’t have any qualifications to seek forgiveness.
On the stage, Kristen had regained her graceful and enchanting appearance, walking towards the flower–strewn stage amidst the crowd’s adoration.
Jovan looked at all of this with red eyes.
That night, Jovan got drunk again at the bar,
In the middle of the night, Jovan woke up in agony and confusion, and he hailed a taxi to the hospital. Arriving at the place where he had once had surgery for Sarahi, he lay on the cold operating table.
The coldness penetrated to the bone.
The scene of that day still vividly remains in his mind.
Sarahi was pressed onto this bed and injected with anesthesia.
How cold she must have been…
Tears streamed down as Jovan curled up in bitterness, feeling a pain in his chest.
I slept through the night and woke up th
the next day.
When Jovan woke up, he heard Denisse’s voice outside.
Chacter 22
“Everyone went crazy! Just because of one Sarahi, they all turned against me. What did I do wrong?”
“The heart was dug by Jovan, why blame it on me? I even thought that he liked me so much, and I was considering being with him. But now, he turns around and blames me instead ”
“My parents went crazy too. They used to hate that bitch Sarahi the most, but now that she’s dead, I have become the culprit.”
She came for a follow–up visit, and the recent days of distress made her find an empty corridor to vent to a friend over the phone.
Every word spoken was heard loud and clear by Javan in the operating room.
