Chapter 25

Wakefield Villa Emmanuel showed up at the Wakefield villa unannounced, no heads-up, just him alone. As he stepped in, the familiar layout gave him a strange feeling—like coming home and getting lost at the same time. He'd been here countless times before. It was right here where he first met Elena. It was also here that he started noticing how much she had changed. Then Lilith came into his life. They started dating, and somehow, he stopped seeing Elena around this place altogether. Now, whenever he showed up here, it was always as Lilith's boyfriend. The small things from the past slowly faded away—the giant tree they met under, and that image of her peeking through the branches, smiling. Gone. A wave of dizziness hit him. It felt like everything that once belonged to him and Elena was slipping through his fingers. What the hell was he supposed to do? He had only one thing left pushing him forward—revenge for Elena. That was the only thing keeping him going now. He knocked on the fron