Chapter 13
After Sandra lett, Lance kept replaying the words Sandra had just said in his mind.
Undeniably, I had.
d always been the most important presence in his heart.
However, he would always be my imcle.
The word “uncle” severed all possibilities between us.
It was not until I turned eighteen and kissed him that he realized his feelings for me.
He spent seven years keeping his distance from me, just as Sandra had said.
He raised me and spent over ten years with me. How could he let go of his feelings so easily?
How could it be possible not to love anymore?
Lance lay in bed, unable to fall asleep. For some reason, he went to the cemetery.
There seemed to be a familiar figure in the distance.
“Zoe, I came to take you home. I won’t scold you anymore…
Lance quickened his pace and chased after it, only to realize it was just the swaying shadows of the trees.
But under the shadows of the trees, there stood a new tombstone.
When Lance saw the cracks on the tombstone, his pupils suddenly contracted.
“How could it be here?”
He was startled when he saw the tombstone.
“A tombstone is for a dead person! It can’t have anything to do with Zoe!”
He squatted in front of the tombstone.
“You always acted like a child with me. Didn’t I tell you not to get involved with these unlucky things?”
He wanted to remove the tombstone, but as he approached, he discovered that the soil around the tombstone was mixed with blood.
“Zoe, despite the bleeding, what exactly do you want to bury in the grave?”
Lance was no longer calm. He dug the soil with his bare hands.
Only in this way could he find out the truth about my disappearance and bring me back.
Finally, he found a bloodstained police uniform.
It was the same as what I wore on the first day when I came back.
There were dozens of bullet holes in the back of the uniform.
On the chest of the police uniform was my badge number. “519068.
“Why is this police uniform buried here?”
The next second, the police uniform disappeared.
ested as if everything was just an illusion.
“What happened?”
Lance’s brain span for a moment, but suddenly, le
he recalled the vanished words on the letter and its original
original content.
If what I said in the letter was
Was true…..
What he did to Zoe in these few days.
Regret surged from his heart. He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood,
