Chapter 96. Impossible

A silver ring.

“Hmm?” I frowned, looking at the ring, which was already in my palm. “But this isn’t mine.”

“Oh… Really?” I saw how Melanie blinked her eyes in mixed shock and confusion, even slightly tilting her head. “But the janitor who asked for help said that it was in the Mausoleum earlier.”

“It is?” It was my turn to be confused. “But I’m alone in that place—”

My words halted when, suddenly, I remembered something.

“That wasn’t my hallucination…” I muttered, biting my lower lip as I remembered the warmth I felt at that time. “This ring… It belongs to him.”

I’ve seen this ring a lot back when we were in America. I believe he purchased it from that place, and not in France.

“Pardon, Your Highness?”

I didn’t answer. Instead, my body froze as I forgot to breathe for a second, a sudden realization coming into my mind.

There’s no doubt. It’s him. River.

But how could that even happen?

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After two days, the doc