that we used to love playing? Turn around and stand still. You can only move when I call your name,”
Cameron was shaking from sorrow, but instead of refusing my request, he nodded lightly. He turned around stiffly to face the wall.
Chapter 9
All he heard was the sound of the wind and the chiming of the bells. With each chime, he felt a new sting in his heart.
**
Soon, the sun started to set. The sky was streaked with orange.
Cameron turned around, and Belle was gone. All that remained at the spot where she stood earlier was a rather worn–looking bell. Clutching the bell, Cameron fell to his knees and sobbed his heart out.
He knew that from that moment onward, he had truly lost the person who’d accompanied him for over a decade. He’d lost the person who moved his heart–the source of his warmth and salvation. Everything was gone in the
storm.
Cameron had single–handedly cast aside the bell that once belonged to him.
It was a farewell, for they were fated to never be a part of each other’s lives again. Belle had moved on, leaving them with nothing but her departure to remember her by.
