After the Eight Years of Love I Gave Up
Chapter 74

Chapter 23

I watched Cassius turn and walk towards his car, watched his lonely figure disappear.

The sun at dusk was suddenly swallowed by the horizon.

The sky turned a pale rose-blue.

As Cassius's car gradually drove away, I seemed to see those seven years of Everly's life from seventeen to twenty-four. Fading away with that car, never to be seen again.

I knew that from this day on, the name Cassius would be just like any other ordinary, common name in this world.

I wouldn't deliberately forget it, but I would never actively think of it again.

"Everly..."

Darius gently embraced me.

I turned back, looked up at him, and smiled lightly: "Let's go, we need to get to the hospital."

On the night Darius proposed, he drank a lot and, holding me, said many, many things.

But what I remember seems to be only the simplest two sentences.

"Everly, we will never have a seven years like that."

"Everly, we will never break up."

At the moment of making a vow, everyone surely believes it to be true.

But when they later break that vow, they wonder how anyone could believe in such things.

But I choose to believe Darius.

Actually, it's believing in myself.

Believing that I deserve to be loved, believing that true feelings will not be betrayed, at least this once.

The day Darius and I got engaged, I received a gift sent from New York.

It was the wedding dress I had once bought.

Restored by the master tailor Cassius had found.

There was also a card in the box.

The handwriting was Cassius's.

It said: "Everly, I will always be waiting for you."

Darius was beside me and also saw the card.

He smiled confidently, kissed me hard on the cheek, "Too bad, I

won't give him the chance."

But that night, the wedding dress disappeared.

And I, I no longer cared about such trivial matters.