A Love That Fades - Chapter 21

“Don’t touch me.” Her hand sliced through the air, an invisible wall rising between them.

Tan’s heart shattered.

He shook his head desperately, biting his lip as tears welled up.

“Do you really hate me that much? I’m not here to bother you, I-I just wanted to see you. Can you at least talk to me for a while?”

He wanted so badly to tell her how much he had missed her.

During all the days she was gone, he had drowned in self- loathing.

He wanted to tear open his chest and show her the thorns of regret that had grown wild inside him, piercing through his very soul.

But when he met her cold, dark eyes, all the words in his throat choked into silence.

Yellow laburnum flowers fluttered down between them.

“Go home. I don’t want to see you.” Selena turned away.

“Don’t go” Ian reached out, grasping at empty air.

His fingers only —- caught the bitter wind passing through.

The security guard silently stepped forward.

Through the blur of tears, Ian watched as Selena’s figure disappeared like the last handful of sand slipping through his fingers.

After more than three hundred days and nights, he had finally found her, only to lose her once again.