Chapter 42 – It’s too sweet

"If I were you, would you look for her?"

Those questions hit him hard. He felt the agony he'd been suppressing for a long time and didn't understand he was sobbing because he was remembering the day... when his parents abandoned him.

He curled his hand into a fist as he gritted his teeth and breathed deeply. He never expected that someone would open this conversation to him. The thought he has been avoiding since then was hard to answer as he expected. He sighed before he started to speak, "why—"

"Why are you crying??" She rose to her feet and came to him, checking the tears on his face by moving her face closer to his. Axel tilted his head to the left and quickly wiped his tears using the back of his palm, then turned to face her.

"I am not crying, you are drunk. You need to rest now," he pretended to be calm even though his heart was getting heavier while all the pain he had experienced felt