Chapter 119. His Redemption

“It is useless, Daniel. This, what I am doing, is what will soothe my pains. Ayana is my only redemption. If in the end she does not accept me, then I guess she was right. I will die a hopeless, guilty, and empty soul.” The pain in his voice was palpable, just like in his eyes. He shut his eyes for a moment.

“Adam, come on! You have always done well to make peace with yourself and your past.”

“But you and I know that I have failed, Daniel.” Adam opened his eyes, looking at Daniel, all the pains of the burden that he was carrying etched in his saggy eyes. “Nothing that I have done has ever soothed this pain. Not even pretending to be a ruthless womanizer has helped me. All these years, this wound is still bleeding. The wound that I caused myself. All these years that have gone, the only thing I have managed to do is to fool people. And I won because I fooled even my parents. But I could not fool myself. I have not been myself. And with Ayana, I feel different. I feel like