Chapter 64

Chapter 64

There was a creak as the door opened, and Eric slowly entered the room.

This place was the same as before Chloe left. He didn’t tell anyone to tidy up this place, and no one else tried to tidy up this place. He then took a quick look at the dust-free room, which Andrea tended to every day.

Chloe had been around for a few months. What did she leave behind during that time…?

He stared at the bed where her warmth had already left, then at the bedside table where she would have touched, then at the armchair where she would have sat, at the desk where she would have stayed, and at the bookshelf where she would have been standing beside.

There was nothing.

There was absolutely nothing… Chloe left nothing behind. She left without leaving a trace. She was gone.

While thinking that she was truly a heartless woman, at the same time, he wondered if she had to go this far. No matter how much she was terminally ill, did she has to take and leave like this?

Yes, he was upset. But even so, one side of his heart told him that his feelings were not right. What he should do now was not to cry out of resentment but to have deep compassion and go further than that.

That was why he was swimming with his bare body, with no one to rely on in the sea of confusing emotions.

Eric walked over to Chloe’s desk—was—and sat down on it.

Tap, tap.

As he hits the desk with his fingers and inhales slowly, he suddenly recalls the words he had with the doctor.

“Cure is impossible.”

“It was already too late when she came to see me.”

He wanted to shout that it was a lie… That the two of them made up their words together and lied to him. He would never tolerate pranks like this, Eric wanted to shout like that.

Still, he couldn’t.

It wasn’t because the doctor in front of him, Robert, was a highly sought-after scholar. Perhaps, it was because he had vaguely guessed all this situation himself that he doubted it.

Chloe was always sick. Both in the North and in the capital.

However, he only saw her sick with his eyes and nursed her only once. Since then, Chloe had not been sick in front of him. She never showed any signs of getting sick to him, it was because she was confined to her room, chewing on pills and collapsing.

…It was the result of Chloe’s efforts for Eric, who hated her being sick.

His mind was dizzy. Chloe had been thoroughly hiding it from him. Enduring, enduring, enduring the pain until her body broke…

Did he never know this?

When talking to Robert, Eric questioned himself. Did he really not know that she was sick?

No, no.

He knew the fact that Chloe was sick…that she was tired, and that she was crumbling… Everyone knew. It was Eric who coldly pretended not to know.

What a cruel thing to do!

If he thought about it carefully, there were signs everywhere.

Eric thought back and wondered why he did that.

The answer was simple. This was because he was a selfish person who only valued his own pain, in other words—his own work and future. The more he thought about Chloe, the more he realized how terribly selfish he was.

That was why he could not contain his anger… anger against himself.

Bang!

As he tried to cool his anger by banging his fist on the desk, Eric buried his face in his hands and let out a deep sigh. His chest was tight. To be precise, it hurt like a needle pricked in the middle of his chest.

“Chloe’s lifespan is two years at the most. Shortest is one year.”

“Chloe will die.”

If she died, if she disappeared from the world… where would the times she spent with him go? Would it disappear, or would it remain? …If it disappeared, where would it disappear, and if it remained, where would it remain?

Eric felt strongly that he shouldn’t be like this. He didn’t know what was wrong, but he thought it shouldn’t be like this anyway, so he jumped up.

He had to go find Chloe.

Right now.

He heard the engine blazing.

Eric repeatedly told the coachman to go a little faster, then sat down again. As he told the car ran with all its might, he frowned as he watched the fleeting scenery.

Damn it. What the hell am I doing?

He took out a cigarette and asked himself.

Chloe arrived in Heath, and she was staying at an inn with the corny name of ‘The Space Where the Sun and Moon Stay.’

This was what Daniel found out by asking an information dealer in the Heath area. Fortunately, finding her wasn’t too difficult. The reason was simple. It was because Chloe was a woman who would stand out anywhere.

When she got to Heath, everyone watched her. Eric was sure she had an unfamiliarity in her.

He terribly disliked Chloe’s unfamiliarity, so he terribly disliked her unique aura and arrogant demeanor that only she had. That was why when there was something that bothered him even more, he didn’t want to admit it.

In any case, Eric hated her unfamiliarity, but at this moment, he missed her unfamiliarity terribly.

…Missed?

Yes. He missed it. He missed Chloe…

It had only been a week since she left. Compared to when she left for the North for months, a week was short and fleeting. However, he could clearly feel her absence during this week. If he knew this would happen, he would spend a little more time with her.

Thinking this, Eric was startled and dropped the cigarette ash.

…What the hell was he thinking?

The reason for his actions in pursuing her was simple. Chloe was his, and shouldn’t be taken away.

Since he had never missed anything that came into his grasp in the first place, it was natural for him to think and act like this.

However, in his mind, deep in his heart, the feeling that he missed Chloe and regretted that he had been mean to her was starting to swell. Eric was surprised. Regret?! Who the hell feels regret for possessions!

He didn’t want to admit it, and the complex emotions that had been in his heart due to his endless denial lifted their head again.

Eric finally calmed down and rubbed his chest in satisfaction.

“Do you love me?”

Suddenly, Chloe’s words suddenly came to mind, and he tried hard to look away. He was going to Chloe just because he couldn’t accept that she had left him.

There are no other emotions…

Eric repeated those words.

“Welcome, to the space where the sun and moon stay.”

Sophia opened the door and greeted the burly man as he entered. While doing so, she held her hands tight because seeing the man’s big eyes and frightened expression made her nervous.

The man looked all over the inn with a searching gaze.

Sophia crunched her shoulders and looked at the man with a frightened squirrel-like appearance. He seemed to have a similar vibe to the female customer who came a few days ago. Sophia muttered, thinking of Chloe, and to her surprise, her name popped out of the man’s mouth.

“Is Chloe Aslan here?”

Sophia widened her eyes wide.

…Chloe Aslan? ‘That’ Marquis Aslan’s wife?

But…

Sophia shook her head.

“There is a woman named Chloe, but Mrs. Aslan is not there.”

“Ha?”

Eric let out a blank laugh.

‘…Has she abandoned her last name?’

When he realized that he and Chloe had really divorced and that the existence of Aslan was erased from her mind, that made him even more angry.

Eric gnawed his teeth and approached Sophia.

“Is Chloe in the room?”

“Ah…no. She went out.”

“Where?”

“I don’t know. I recommended swimming in the sea, but she said she didn’t like it. She left right away without saying where she was going.”

Eric frowned.

Come to think of it, this place, Heath, was a tourist attraction that boasted a beautiful beach. Suddenly, he remembered what Chloe had said. When talking about life after divorce, she said that she would go see the sea…

Eric immediately left the inn without looking back. With quick steps, he made his way towards the beach.

Chloe.

Chloe.

He kept repeating her name.

Chloe was Aslan. She was from the Aslan family… She would never escape Aslan.

Eric felt his breathing quicken and clenched his fists. Chloe, mean Chloe, bad Chloe! How could she throw him away? How could she leave him?!

He gazed at Chloe, who was sitting on the sandy beach in the distance, glancing out to the distant sea.

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