Chapter 64

Lumivale? That was her hometown, wasn’t it? “Yeah, it happened in Lumivale. Luckily, a kind-hearted girl happened to be passing by and saved him. Otherwise, I really don't know how I would’ve explained it to my father—or to my sister-in-law in the afterlife.” So that’s how it was. Alice finally got it—turns out, the girl who saved Edward’s life was the same girl he’d been holding onto in his heart for ten whole years. Back then, she was just a barely-teen girl who hadn’t even finished junior high, and he was already out here falling head over heels. To have held a spot in his heart for a decade, that girl must’ve been more than just kind—she probably looked amazing too. Now, thinking about how Martha Hawthorne had just said he was a one-woman type... well, that kind of checks out. It’s just that, it felt a bit unfair—to his current “wife.” While they were talking, Edward had already finished making dessert. Tiramisu. Both Martha and Alice each got a slice. Martha took a bite and gave h