Chapter 481

Now wasn't the time for a fight. The most important thing was getting Luke to move his foot so that Dominic and Vespera could leave. As for everything else, Vespera couldn't care less. "Vespera, I would never hurt you. When you think about us, wasn't there more good than bad?" Luke asked, gazing deeply at Vespera. He was trying to say that out of their eight years together, only the last one had gone to hell. Vespera smiled and said, "Good or bad, it's all in the past now." More good than bad? Digging into that would only trap her in a corner of her own making. She would wall herself in with memories and hold herself hostage with pain. She would start drowning in everything. One couldn't stand still in love, and one couldn't walk backward. Trying to heal the present by clinging to the past never worked. Luke finally stepped back, letting the elevator door slide shut. It felt like a chapter of Vespera's life had just closed with it, and she was moving up. Vespera turned and glanc