“You chose to leave, so why come back?! Do you even know what Noah went through these past seven years??
Elise Simmons shouted at me, her voice filled with fury.
She told me that during the years I was gone, Noah had lived like a hollow shell.
There was one time when something went wrong in the lab, and Noah got injured–he ended up in the ICU for three days,
unconscious,
He nearly lost his life.
While he was out cold, he kept murmuring my name.
In the end, they had to keep calling out to him at his bedside, just to wake him up.
“I was the one by his side during the hardest times! So why is it that the moment you come back, you get to have all his
attention again? Are you trying to destroy him?!”
Elise glared at me, and it was obvious how deeply she cared about Noah.
In the alumni group chat, besides gossiping about me, people also talked about Elise-
How she had always been there for Noah, how loyal and quietly devoted she was, how she was the epitome of unrequited
love.
After hearing what she said, I couldn’t decide whether to laugh or be angry.
Perhaps the sarcasm in my eyes was too obvious, because Elise looked even more furious.
“What are you laughing at?!”
“Elise Simmons, isn’t this exactly what you wanted? Everything’s gone according to plan–yet you still want to blame me
because it didn’t work out?”
Her expression froze, her rage stiffening like a mask that no longer fit.
Chapter 19
啓籠(日本語吹替版)
