Shadows Of A Forgotten Spring

Chapter 159 Chapter 159 71% "Emma." His voice cracked on her name, and she heard the raw, naked pain in it. It sliced through the barriers she'd erected against him like a knife, opening old wounds she thought had scarred over. His eyes, glowing in the faint moonlight. reflected the pain she couldn't bear to witness. He seemed shattered beyond words. The weight of five years of longing, regret, and pain on his face. For the first tin so many years, Emma wasn't looking at the powerful, cold Alexander that she used to know; she was looking at a man who doesn't give a flying fuck what the world thinks anymore. Her decision wavered, and for a moment, she wanted to close the distance between them, throw her arms around him, and tell him she missed him more than words could say. She wanted to press her lips against his and make him feel how his absence gutted her, that every day without him felt like walking through the storm without shelter.

But she couldn't.

Her chest clenched, and she swallowed the lump in her throat. The words he had said tonight couldn't erase the pain he had caused her. They couldn't erase those nights when she had cried to sleep, wondering why she wasn't enough for him. Her voice cracked as she whispered, "No. You made your choice, Alexander. You chose your path, and it wasn't me. It was never me." She tore her wrist free, and the act tore at her heart as much as it probably did his. Every step she took away from him felt like walking away from a part of her soul. Her eyes blurred with her tears, but she kept walking, refusing to look back, knowing if she did, she'd lose the little strength she had.

She finally let the tears spill but she tried to muffle her sobs. His voice was raw, pleading, echoing in her mind. The love she had for him was still there, buried beneath the hurt and betrayal, but she couldn't let it surface. Not, now. Maybe not ever.

"You are my future, Emma," Alexander's voice thundered out into the cool night air. He did not move from where he stood; yet his words held the weight of a man who had been to the very depths of hell and back. His chest rose and fell as he poured out his soul. "You are my past, my present, and my future! My heart burns for you. My body yearns for you. You are my future. When I heard about the fire at your company, I almost ran out of my mind. Without you, I have no reason to keep living, Emma. You are the one for me, whom I want and need; you are the only one I ever desire." Emma stiffened, frozen in mid-step as his desperate confession sliced through the air. She turned slowly, her heart pounding in her chest.

This words were everything she had longed to hear for years, yet they ctoo late. Her wide, tear-filled eyes locked onto his; disbelief etched into every line of her face.

"And yet," she said, "you divorcedfor someone else." The tears she had fought so desperately to hold at bay finally spilled over.

Her voice crackled as the raw ache of his betrayal flowed through Alexander's shoulders sagged under the weight of her accusation and he took a wary step forward. "I'm so sorry," he rasped out, his voice hoarse with regret. "Then I didn't really know better," Alexander revealed. "I was blind, Emma. But my life hasn't been the ssince the moment you walked out of it. Month over month I searched and searched for you so relentlessly, desperately. I love you, Emma Black. Always have. always will.

Emma shook her head. Her lips quivered and wobbled as she struggled to hold herself from falling apart. "You do not loveenough," she whispered with bitterness and a broken heart. No matter how much you claim to love me, I'll always be 13:22 Sat, Jan 25 G.

Chapter 159 174 71% your second choice. If you truly loved me, Alexander, you would have told your mother and Vigjan about our twins." Alexander's face contorted in pain. "I didn't tell them because of you, Emma. Because of how you reacted at the airport. I did not want to go against your wish to keep their paternity a secret. I wasn't trying to ignore them; I was trying to respect your wishes." Emma let out a deep, heaving breath, struggling to restrain the storm brewing inside her. Anger, love, grief, and longing swirled together, threatening to consher. Her head told her to turn and walk away, to protect herself from the man who had once destroyed her. But her heart, her treacherous, aching heart, refused to let go of the love it still harbored for him. "I love you, Emma," Alexander repeated, his voice cracked by the burden of his emotions. "Please... givea second chance." Emma's lips shook; she was holding on by a thread. She slowly shook her head, cold and far away, "It's too late for that." She turned to leave him behind, but his next words brought her to a stop. "Don't leaveagain, Emma."

His voice was raw, laced with pain and regret, with desperation clinging to it. "I may not make it this taround." Emma shut her eyes Als her heart tried to piece together the vulnerability that laced his voice. Her fists clenched and she willed herself to stay strong, but the dam inside her snapped. Her heart ruled over her mind, and before she knew it, she whirled around, flinging herself into his arms.

The moment his arms wrapped around her, the world disappeared into the background.. All the anger, all the pain, all the longing of all these years melted into that single embrace. She clung to him as if he were her lifeline, her tears soaking into his shirt as she let herself feel all the things she'd been holding back. Without a word, their lips crashed together in a desperate, soul-deep kiss. It wasn't soft; it wasn't sweet. It was the collision of passion and pain, love and loss.

Emma's fingers tangled in his hair, pulling him closer as his hands clutched at her waist, as if he was really scared to let go. The kiss was messy and chaotic.

In that moment, nothing else mattered, not the past, not the pair, not the years they had lost. It was just them, two broken hearts finding solace in each other, two souls colliding in a love that refused to die. AD