Chapter 24

Three days later, Liam returned to Lumen City alone. When he arrived home, he noticed the lights were on again in the house next door. The butler told him the Torres family had already sold off all their domestic assets, and the new neighbors had moved in just two days ago. Hearing this, Liam finally felt the reality that everything truly could never go back to how it was. He spent the entire night sitting alone in his room, unable to sleep. The next morning, he watched through his window as the new neighbors dismantled the old swing set in the garden. The soft pink-and-white curtains were replaced with dark green ones, and the shell wind chime by the door was cut down and tossed out. Everything that had once belonged to the Torres family and reminded him of Mia was quietly vanishing from his world. He was powerless to stop it and could only drink himself into oblivion day after day, numbing himself with alcohol. His heart, already torn to pieces, gradually went hollow, and he was