Unrequited Love is Over, Fend for Yourselves (5 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 42

“We’re alone now—there’s something we need to talk about.”

Etienne looked at Reinhart with a faint tension in her eyes. It was time to finally lay the secret bare.

“When did you die?”

Caught off guard by the blunt question, Etienne hesitated, her lips parting but no answer coming out. Reinhart raised both hands gently, as if to say there was no need to be nervous.

“If it’s too much to answer, you don’t have to. I’m just… curious about when you died.”

Reinhart moved closer and sat beside her. He dipped his feet into the water too and let out a long sigh. Though he hadn’t submerged his body, his expression softened with relief.

“I was twenty-one.”

Etienne lowered her gaze forward after hearing his answer, gently swaying her feet in the water.

“That would be five years from now.”

“And Your Highness died even before that.”

“Hearing it like this… it really hits home. So we’re both people who’ve died once, then?”

Finding common ground, Reinhart spoke softly, and Etienne gave a faint smile.

“Yes, exactly.”

To have both died once… it felt strange yet somehow meaningful that this could be their shared bond.

“What do you want in this life?”

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