Chapter 91 A Page Full of Sorry

But after that, the pages were blank. Lucien flipped through them again and again just to be sure. Then, he noticed it. The back pages had been torn out. Jagged remnants clung to the spine, torn out roughly. It felt wild and desperate. It was obvious they had been ripped out in a moment of intense pain. He was dying to know what Talia had written on there. He held the notebook up closer to the bedside lamp. Under the soft, yellow light, he could faintly make out something on the blank pages. There were tiny indentations on the paper's surface. They were pen pressure marks! He grabbed the hotel phone and quickly dialed the front desk. "I need a pencil right now!" The staff didn't dare delay. Within minutes, someone knocked and handed one over. Lucien took the pencil, turned it on its side, and gently began to shade over the page. Bit by bit, the hidden words began to appear. There was no passionate message on the paper. The words that appeared were just a simple "I'm sorry". Ho