Chapter 1274

But her words only drove a stake through his heart.

"What about me?" he asked. "Am I… all in the past too?"

Serenity turned to him and looked straight into his eyes, saying, "Yes. To me, everything that happened between us is all in the past now, so there's no need for you to keep dwelling on it any longer."

He suddenly chuckled lightly and muttered, "There's no need, huh…?"

His pain, his regrets, his guilt… was it all just unnecessary things to her?

Just then, the car stopped right in front of the door to the mansion, and Lucas told Serenity, "Let's go. I've got something to show you."

And so, Serenity followed Lucas into the mansion and then to the studio inside where he kept all his paintings, and the only thing he painted… was her when she was a little girl. There was a painting of her when they had first met in the dense forest. There was a painting of her when she had grabbed his hand in the nick of time to prevent him from falling off a cliff. There was a painting of her