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Chapter 66 A Message After Four Years.

Chapter 66 A Message After Four Years.

She didn’t like adding strangers on chat apps.

But her conversations with James had felt almost magical.

Though they’d never met, it was like they were kindred spirits.

So even after realizing she had added the wrong person, she never deleted him.

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That is—until over four years ago, when James vanished as if off the face of the earth. No matter how many

messages she sent, he never replied.

She figured James just didn’t want to keep in touch. After all, they’d only ever known each other online. Who

would genuinely treat an intefriend as a confidant?

Only her. Because there were so few people in her life who treated her kindly, she had truly cto cherish

James as a friend.

Still, people have to move forward. Even if she felt a quiet emptiness from losing that friendship, she wouldn't let

herself stay trapped in the past.

Most people had switched to using Whatand uninstalled Instagram.

But maybe because a small part of her still held onto hope, she never deleted Instagram. Even when she got a

new phone, it was the firstshe reinstalled.

She never imagined that after all these years, James-the friend she’d once considered her closest-would really

reach out again.

And what she didn’t expect at all was that the first thing he said... was “I'm sorry.”

To be honest, when she first lost contact with James, she had blamed him.

Because during those three months they kept in touch, they'd called each other best friends-promised they’d be

lifelong friends.

But when the Ginger family turned on her-every single one of them-hurting her, isolating her during her most

painful and hopeless days, every message she sent him went unanswered.

Even when she called him, he never picked up.

She'd thought that after such a sudden disappearance, she'd resent him when he cback. That she wouldn't

want to talk to him.

But as she looked at his message now, all that resentment and blseemed to dissolve in an instant- replaced

by gratitude and relief.

He was alive. James was still in this world.

Over the past four years, she'd imagined so many worst-case scenarios.

She had been afraid-truly afraid-that something terrible had happened to James and that he had

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disappeared from the world forever.

But he was alive. Her dear friend was still alive.

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Lily was still dazed when another message from him cin: “I didn’t mean to stop talking to you.”

“Over four years ago, | ran into sreally bad stuff... that’s why | cut off contact. Things are better now. | won't

disappear again.”

“Leila, how have you been all these years?”

How had she been... all these years?

Lily didn’t reply right away.

Her thoughts drifted far, far away.

The four and a half years she'd lost contact with him... had not been kind.

The Ginger family had found their biological daughter. The adoptive parents who once cherished her began

belittling and resenting her.

The brothers who had once fiercely protected her now treated her like an enemy and led the charge in bullying

her.

At her lowest point, John had pulled her out of the dark. She had run to him with everything she had, laid her

heart bare-only to be repaid with betrayal.

These past four and a half years felt like she had lived through several lifetimes of hardship.

Still, Lily wasn't the kind of person to spread negativity. After a moment's hesitation, she typed, “I've been doing

okay these past few years. How about you?”

After sending the messages, James-usually composed and unshakable-found himself strangely nervous.

He knew how much it hurt to disappear without a word.

And he was scared-scared that Leila wouldn't want to talk to him anymore.

But seeing her reply, those two simple sentences, he finally felt his tense heart settle.

The cold around him seemed to melt in a rush of spring wind.

As if frost on a mountaintop thawed in an instant, and spring bloomed across the landscape.

And that spring light poured into his eyes. The chill in his usually distant gaze began to soften.

What he really wanted to know was... had she gotten married? Started a family?

Four and a half years was a long time. Anything could have happened.

All his life, he had always been brave-fearless, even.

But when it cto feelings, even the brave hesitate. A few simple words suddenly becso hard to say

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He clenched his phone tight and stood frozen for a long while before finally typing, “Did you... already get.

married?”

Huh?

Lily froze for a moment.

She hadn’t expected James to ask something like that out of the blue.

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Strictly speaking, it wasn’t really a lie.

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