Chapter 73. Romantic Life

Lexcis Aeden

"He looked back, didn't he?" She asks, no longer under the story's spell.

Unaware that I am watching her, Chantel is too caught up in the narrative. Sadly, he did look back. After that, she was no longer there. Always and forever."

It's evident that Chantel looks like she might cry. I have never seen her this way before. She looks genuinely upset. She is being herself.

"That's not right. She shouldn't have died in the first place. In what way does that make sense? If I were him, I would kill the person who chased her and killed her."

Aldric laughs, "I just wouldn't look back."

"That's not easy." He checked to see if she was there. Not all of us can trust each other. So says Zave.

"Why not join her in death?" Laurence mumbles, and everyone looks at him. They would never have to lose each other that way.

"That is so messed up,"