Chapter 75. Where Am I?

LEO

She cried loudly taking a moment.

My chest ached.

I guess it’s my turn, now.

I filled my lungs, and my shout was not one of pain but of defiance—a truth I needed the universe to hear.

“YOU ARE THE STRONGEST PERSON I KNOW. I LOVE YOU! LOVE ME BACK! GIVE ME A CHANCE!”

The effect was instantaneous.

Her screaming cut off.

She turned her head, eyes wide and shimmering with fresh tears, searching my face in the dim light.

She cried again, but this time it was a different kind of ache.

“She will,” she whispered, her voice hoarse. “She will love you, okay? Don’t cry.”

A heartbreaking attempt to comfort me, to absolve me of the pain she was drowning in.

It’s you, silly, I thought, my heart cracking. It’s always been you.

She whirled back to the water.

“JUN! EVEN YOU TOO! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME FOR ME! YOU BASTARD! YOU BASTARD! YOU CALL ME FAT! YOU ARE ASHAMED OF ME?” she shrieked, her voice breaking with