Chapter 127. Atonement (2)

She lost it, seeing him enter all the rooms in her house that first day. She couldn’t stop staring because she knew more was coming. When he was here while they were dating, she told herself she didn’t let him see all of the house for his protection. Turned out, she didn’t let him see everything to protect herself.

Now that he was her fiancé, there would be no more hiding. He’d keep walking into the rooms of this house, day after day, filling them up with him. They’d become just like the shooting range. She would see him everywhere. Then there would be no escaping him. She should have known that it was too late even back then. Nothing she did was enough to keep his love for her from evoking hers for him. There was never any escaping him.

“This is where my mother died. I haven’t been out here since,” she announced, and he cursed.

“I’m sorry, Kei. I didn’t even think—”

She cut him off with a kiss. Madz may have died here, but this was also where he said he boug