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163: A Shadow from the Past (I)
A smile was spread across her lips as she read through the letter once again. Was it the fifth time or the sixth time she was reading through it? She couldn't tell exactly since she had lost count. But every single time her eyes would skim along the ink, her heart bloomed with love. It wasn't probably the first time Claude had done something romantic and sweet for her. But this one surely topped the list.
Ayla was never someone to get attached to things, but she surely knew how to appreciate a sincere action. Humming a low tone under her breath, she went on reading through the words one more time.
"Yours C—today, tomorrow and forever
You know I love you…"
She mumbled the last lines under her breath before she decided to put the note away for good now. Folding it in half, she placed it neatly in a small wooden box which held some other memories of a certain man. One in particu
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"Hey." Claude turned to watch the person who had interrupted his thought process. If it was someone else, they would have probably earned themselves a scolding if not mockery from the man. But who was he to mind when it was the only person he wished to be with. Ayla. "Hey, you." A soft smile crossed his stern features as he gazed at the owner rather lovingly, his eyes filled with pure adoration. "What are you doing here?" Ayla raised an eyebrow in his direction as she eyed the white sport's car parked right behind him. It was miraculous enough to earn the man a few glances from the onlookers. But did he really require a car for the purpose? He so did not. His face would be enough to have random strangers, both men and women, drooling. And to a certain extent, it annoyed her. What she found more unfair was how he had only grown more handsome over the time they had spent apart.
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