Chapter 26. If Only

Jake’s POV

I was headed towards my car when I stepped over something.

I did not know why, but I bent down to pick it up.

I did not know whether it was good or bad luck. I did not know whether I should have picked it or not.

It was an earring.

Not any other earrings. It was Lea’s earring. I knew because I had made it with my own hands when I worked at the silverware factory.

Her initials were hand-graved inside. The shape was tattered and ugly, yet she wore it everywhere... even to weddings.

And I found one piece under my foot after thinking that I had seen her not once but twice in the same day.

There was only so much of a coincidence in the world.

This was confirmation that Lea was there.

My mind was not playing tricks anymore.

She was there watching me sing the song once more.

Why?

Why didn’t she come to see me?

Why did she watch from afar?

One of the bodyguards literally sho