Chapter 21
The thunder roared through the sky, Alicia trembled violently in the storm, the iron chains tightly bound her delicate wrists, and beneath the crimson swelling, there oozed a trace of blood.
In the moment when the thunder tore through the sky, the iron chains emitted a piercing scream as Mandy dragged them frantically.
“Very familiar, isn’t it? Mandy, with her fingertips, stroked the back of Alicia’s neck, the icy blade gliding along her spine.”
She saw Marcus walking towards her from the depths of the rain curtain, his black windbreaker billowing like a black flag in the strong wind.
Marcus stopped five meters away, rain dripping quietly along the sharp jawline.
The man’s eyes were filled with emotions more violent than the waves, but they suddenly froze into ice when they touched the beads around Alicia’s neck.
Marcus’s leather shoes stepped into the puddles, the downpour snaking down the sharp knife in Mandy’s hand. She laughed maniacally, pulling on the chain, the sound echoing in the rain.
Alicia’s forehead slammed heavily into the rusty railing, and blood instantly blurred her right eye.
“Since Marcus was going to destroy me, I decided to go down with you.”
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Mandy laughed maniacally in the rain, glaring fiercely at the grim- faced Marcus.
Now, it’s time for you to taste the bitterness as well!
Mixed with rainwater, blood droplets fell into the sea, Alicia’s consciousness shattered in the storm.
Marcus looked at Alicia’s pure white cotton skirt soaked by the rain, and suddenly remembered three years ago when Alicia had carried Callie’s body out of the wrecked car, her fingertips stained with blood and water.
“Don’t touch her.”
Marcus’s deep voice was wrapped in thunder as it exploded in the rain curtain, like a thousand–pound thunder.
You told me not to move, so should I not move? Mandy grinned menacingly as the sound of metal clashing echoed in the pouring rain.
Alicia saw Nolan emerging from the shadows of the bridge tower with the SWAT team. His usually gentle eyes were now frozen with an unbreakable frost.
Mandy’s knife plunged into Alicia’s neck, blood beads trickling down her pale collarbone and pooling into her clothing.
Marcus’s pupils constricted suddenly, and his mind went blank.
The body acted faster than the mind. In the moment when Marcus pounced, Alicia caught a whiff of familiar cedar scent mixed with blood.
When Marcus grabbed Mandy’s wrist holding the knife, the icy metal had already plunged into his abdomen.
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Time seemed to be pressed the pause button.
Alicia stared blankly as the man who had hated her for three years fell to his knees in a pool of blood, his slender fingers still tightly gripping Mandy’s wrist holding the knife, just like he had tightly gripped the police tape at the scene of the accident years ago.
In the moment when the smell of blood burst in the wind and rain, Marcus fell to his knees at Alicia’s feet.
“This time, I finally… could protect you for Callie…”
Marcus’s throat surged with thick blood, coughing up a mouthful of blood that stained the rainwater at Alicia’s feet red.
He saw Alicia’s tears and Callie’s blood beads collide in the air before his eyes.
Marcus’s faint groans were drowned out by the blaring sirens of the ambulance, with Nolan’s figure running towards him reflected in his dilated pupils.
Nolan’s usually gentle eyes were now filled with a cold and murderous intent.
As Marcus’s consciousness was dissipating, the raindrops in the sky turned into the white brilliance of the church dome. Alicia, wearing a white veil, opened her arms and flew towards him.
And behind her, Callie looked at the two of them with a smile on her face, her lips curling into two sweet dimples.
“Adrenaline administered! Defibrillator charging to 200 joules!”
The cold white light in the operating room exploded into a pale halo in Marcus’s pupils, disinfectant mixed with the smell of blood poured into
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his nostrils, and the heart monitor emitted a piercing alarm.
In the midst of chaos, Marcus saw eighteen–year–old Callie standing barefoot by the operating table, with grass stains still clinging to the hem of her blue and white school uniform, and the crooked crystal hairpin reflecting the green light of the monitor.
“Brother, how long are you going to be trapped in hatred? Callie’s tears fell on his collarbone, burning his heart.”
The moment the defibrillator was pressed heavily against the chest, the coastal road by the cliff unfolded on the retina.
In the rearview mirror, Callie in the passenger seat was turning her head to playfully fight with Alicia behind her.
He still remembered, the morning mist was so thick that it could wring out the scent of jasmine, just like the bloody smell lingering on the endotracheal tube now.
Alicia secretly placed the lily she had picked on Callie’s temple. In the morning mist, Callie’s laughter rang like silver bells: “When Ally graduates, I’ll officiate your wedding!”
“Brother, let go of Ally.”
Callie’s shadow began to melt into the ripples of the monitor, amidst the sound of the surgical knife hitting the ground, he heard his fifteen- year–old self–placing Alicia’s hand in his palm, “I will never let Ally suffer any injustice in this lifetime.”
“Prepare for the intramuscular injection!”
When the icy needle pierced into his heart, Marcus’s blood–stained eyelashes trembled violently, the voice in his memory choked with “I
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do” was piercing through the years.
He saw Alicia looking up with a smile under the cherry blossom tree, and the greenness faded from her face, revealing a blush he had never seen before, as if the sunset had finally dyed the snow–covered mountain top.
Callie’s shadow behind them turned into scattered rays of light, falling on their intertwined fingers with wedding rings.
