To You Whom I Don’t Love That Much (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 116

The body heat felt from the part touching him was disgustingly chilling.The helplessness from the overwhelming difference in physique pressed down on her entire body.Above all, what made her feel wretched was her own desperate effort to find traces of the past in Nick.

When, exactly, had things become so twisted?They had surely gone through the same times, shared the same dreams…When she closed her eyes, she could see Nick’s young, innocent face from when they were seven.Those countless cold, hungry nights when they leaned against each other’s backs as if they were a hearth.Those nights when they weren’t lonely because they had each other.Thinking of it now only made her feel like crying.Damn it, Nick.

“How… did it come to this?”

“From the beginning.”

“…”

“You didn’t know, but I’ve felt this way since the first time I saw you.”

“…”

“I won’t let you slip away again.I found you, nurtured you, made you bloom.So, your end should belong entirely to me.”

Found her, nurtured her, made her bloom.Forgetting the suffocation in her throat, she burst into a cackling laugh.It was so absurd that her lungs ached as if she’d swallowed a gallon of seawater.

Fine, she wasn’t going to deny everything Nick said.After all, it was indeed him who first found Rosetta, starving to death, and took her into the pickpocket gang.From the moment he split his one piece of shriveled bread in half for her, Nick had been her one and only family.

But from the beginning?Her most cherished memories were now thrown into the mud.The steadfast trust she had was cracked from the start.The moment Nick truly betrayed her wasn’t when he incited the seventeen-year-old pirate captain or slipped an unknown drug into her drinking water.It was right now.

Tears, held back for so long, finally spilled down her cheeks.The last shred of affection she had left vanished completely.In its place, only vivid hatred was painted over.He smiled tenderly, rubbing her wet cheek with his thumb.

“Just hold on a little longer.Once this is over safely, we’ll escape to a place no one can find.Not Esperanda, not Tilsen.I’ve got my eye on a fine mansion.You’ll like it too.”

“…”

“No need to overthink it.In a comfortable place, all you need to do is eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”

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