chapter 129

Annie’s pov

The sound of the kettle whistling brought me back from my wandering thoughts. Thoughts that were supposed to be happy and elated but rather full of worries and uncertainties. Happy because after so many years I finally set my eyes on Zack who I thought was dead for so long. Elated because it should have meant that I and Zack get to complete our love story together. After all we have been through, we deserved that much; I deserved that much.

But there is more to it. It was not as simple as I had played it in my head. Many years have passed since I and Zack both lost each other and thought the other was dead. There was someone else in the picture now.

Those years that I was lost to him, another was rewriting a love song in his heart. Creating fresh and new moments in a space I once occupied and maybe still do. Just maybe.

Freda. I had no clue that she was currently in Zack’s life. What a small world, indeed. How fate brought me to her knowing fully well we had one thing i