“Quinn Green!”
He quickly covered my mouth. “Shh, keep your voice down my parents are asleep.”
My heart pounded wildly, and the mood shifted from intimacy to astonished delight. I looked at him in disbelief.
“Are you… Did you also-”
He nodded. “Yes, I was reborn too.”
It all made sense now!
His quick agreement to my invitation that day, the hostility he showed toward Sadie, and his insistence that I retake the SATS–it all clicked.
Tears of joy welled up in my eyes. “This is amazing! It’s really amazing!”
Quinn, once a star destined to fall tragically, had been given another chance, just like me.
I leaned into his embrace, wrapping my arms around him. He held me tightly and carried me to the bedroom,
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where we lay entwined together, fitting perfectly against each other,
His arms felt steady and secure, bringing a sense of peace had not experienced in years.
After a while, with my eyes closed, I could not hold back the question that had been nagging at me.
“Quinn, what really happened between you and Sadie back then?”
Sadie had told me plenty of unflattering things about Quinn–how he was cold, distant, arrogant, and difficult to
traits were the reason their marriage failed. get along with. I had always assumed thos
However, Quinn’s answer stunned me. Sadie had actually tricked him into marrying her.
“At first, I thought she really liked me. However, on our welding night, she refused to be with me and cried, claiming that my mother had humiliated her with the bracelet.”
“I tried explaining countless times that my mom didn’t mean it that way, but she wouldn’t listen. Later, I humbled myself to beg for her understanding, but she would always find a way to humiliate me in front of others deliberately.”
“When I was diagnosed with cancer, she told me that she regretted marrying me not long after we got together. She only stayed because she didn’t want to lose the status of being married to a professor.”
“She wasted my entire life, Ren. Even after I died, she wouldn’t leave me alone. While my body was still in the funeral home, she was clinging to Henry, crying and kissing him. She told him she hated me and had been blind to ever choose me.”
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