Chapter 394

Fireworks kept blooming in the sky, bright and careless, as if the world had nothing to regret. People were welcoming a new year with laughter, promises, and loud joy. Jabco stood there, trapped in the past. He was not waiting anymore. He was hunting. Waiting was too soft a word for what lived inside him now. She might never come back on her own, but he would make sure he found her. He would not stop. He could not stop. At the very least, he needed one thing from her. The truth. What was his fault? That question burned inside him every single day. She was not someone who ran away easily. He knew her better than anyone else. She didn’t leave when he forced her into marriage. She didn’t leave when he threatened her, when he hurt her with his words, when he pushed her down until she had nothing left but pride. She stayed even when he became someone she should have hated. She stayed through the worst of him. And when things were finally getting better, when they were slowly finding their w