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    “By the way,” he started again, “Gerard mentioned someone’s been chasing after youtely. Is that true?”


    “No.”


    “So… you’re not nning to get married anytime soon?”


    “I’m going to rest next door,” Kristian said abruptly, rising to his feet. “Let me know when Gerard’s group returns.”


    With that, he stepped into the adjoining room and closed the door behind him. But rest was thest thing on his mind.


    Felipe’s questions echoed inside his head, pressing against thoughts he had long kept buried. Rubbing his brow, he sat at the edge of the bed, weary—not fromck of sleep, but from a heaviness that had clung to his heart for years. Marriage? How could he possibly be ready?


    Over the years, he had revisited the past more times than he cared to admit. Ashley. Freya. The tangled web of choices and regrets. Perhaps time had brought rity, but with it came the sting of shame. He saw now how blind he had been—how absurd everything had be.


    Back then, he hadn’t truly understood love. He had believed that Ashley had vanished from his life under the shadow of illness, choosing to bear her pain alone.


    In the aftermath, blinded by grief and guilt, he had clung to her memory like a man drowning. And in doing so, he had pushed Freya away. He had tried to mend the crackster, but love, once fractured, doesn’t always heal.


    Even after all this time, Freya had not faded from his heart.


    To offer that heart to someone else now—when it still bore her name—would feel like a betrayal.


    His fingers absently reached for his phone. Unlocking it, he opened Freya’s profile, scrolling through it like a ritual he couldn’t let go of.


    Still nk. It always was.


    Sometimes, he wished she posted more—a picture, a status, anything. Just something to let him glimpse her world from afar.


    But she wasn’t the type to share. If he was lucky, she might post once a year—if that.


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    Just then, his phone vibrated twice.


    A message from Liam lit up the screen. “Gerard’s getting married. Any thoughts?”


    Kristian typed back, “What thoughts?”


    The reply came quickly. “Marriage, obviously. You’ve been single for years. nning to stay that way forever?”


    Without blinking, Kristian blocked him. He wasn’t having that conversation.


    Downstairs, the venue came alive with celebration.


    Laughter and music filled the halls as Gerard, radiant in his tuxedo, exchanged rings with his bride beneath a canopy of flowers and joy.


    Kristian watched quietly with a bittersweet smile. His thoughts drifted—not to the dazzling ceremony before him, but to a much simpler memory. Freya and Ellis. Their wedding had no grandeur, no roaring apuse. And yet, it had etched itself into his mind as something unforgettable.


    “What’s with that look?” Felipe pped a hand on his shoulder with a crooked grin. “Feeling envious?”<fn2d4a> N?w ?ovel chapt?rs are published on find{n}ovel</fn2d4a>


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