?Chapter 1506:


    In this stretched moment of tension, Marc suddenly entered her thoughts—the man who’d been so tender and attentive in her memories, now revealed as a calcting fraud.


    All her determination and anguish these past days felt like some cruel joke.


    She still remembered their college years, when Marc had once proposed bungee jumping and she’d tly refused.


    Back then, he’d held her and promised that if it scared her, they wouldn’t do it.


    Ste had never imagined that, somewhere in her life’s timeline, she’d still end up experiencing the terrifying rush of bungee jumping.


    “Three!”


    At the instructor’s final count, Ste didn’t jump. Her feet seemed welded to the tform, incapable of movement.


    The instructor didn’t pressure her, and William remained quietly at her side.


    Time drifted past in stillness, only the wind howling in her ears.


    Ste squeezed her eyes shut, suddenly overwhelmed by the urge to weep.


    She pulled in a deep breath and finally took that step forward.


    The instant her body dropped, the world dissolved into chaos.


    Sky and earth whirled violently in her field of vision, and Ste’s scream lodged in her throat, transforming into silent choking.


    She felt her heart nearly seize up, felt her blood turn to ice, as though she truly was crossing into another realm.


    Ste had no sense of how long she fell, but the safety rope never reached its tension point.


    She started hallucinating, convinced she would just keep dropping until she shattered against the earth.


    In her extreme terror, broken images began surfacing in her mind.


    g?lnσν???s hosts thetest chapters


    The figure in those shes wasn’t Marc.


    Ste remembered a pair of powerful arms catching her just before she could fall, their warmth infused with a steadying strength that eased much of her fear.


    A low voice murmured against her ear, “Don’t be afraid. I’m right here with you.”


    Next came an explosion of fireworks, painting the night sky brilliant colors and illuminating a sharp, distinctive profile.


    Then a sheer cliff—not this bungee tower but an actual precipice.


    Someone dragged Ste into a cave, then screamed hoarsely, “All of this should have been mine, Ste. You took everything from me, including William’s love. You need to vanish from this world.”


    The images came jumbled and iplete, like puzzle pieces scattered across a table.


    Ste tried to hold onto these memories as she plunged downward, but they moved too quickly for her to make out any faces clearly.


    Something pressed against her chest, as though her heart were being ripped in two, making it nearly impossible to draw breath as she hurtled through space.


    “Ah!”


    Unable to contain it any longer, she screamed as she neared the bottom, her voice ricocheting through the canyon.


    .


    .


    .