All too late for his love
Chapter 269

Chapter 269

A million dollars. There were times when Zayn threw a party, and a million dollars wouldn't be enough to cover his tab. Yet, the love of his life had signed her corpse away for it.

Sea burials were all the rage in Havenpoint. The deceased would be cremated and have their ashes scattered across the sea.

The topic had come up while Zayn and Willow were still in their honeymoon phase.

He had told her that a sea burial, where one's remains became one with the sea and drifted freely across the world, had its appeal.

She had shaken her head vehemently, frowning and pouting as disagreement colored her face.

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She didn't like the idea of sea burials and preferred conventional burials, claiming that if one tethered to the land after death, their souls might get lost on the way to the great beyond. "You know that being lost terrifies me," Willow had told Zayn,

She was slightly superstitious, to be frank.

While Zayn did not believe in an afterlife, much less in the theory of souls transcending through lifetimes,

Willow was different.

Willow stubbornly believed in both the afterlife and that souls were eternal. She didn't want to get lost on

her way to the great beyond, thus the appeal of a ground burial.

And yet, she had signed away those beliefs along with her corpse to an organ procurement center just to

raise money for Aaron's surgery.

Donating one's corpse meant one could never have a ground burial, and one might get lost on the way to the great beyond. Willow wouldn't have agreed to donate her corpse unless she was truly desperate. How hopeless did she have to be to sign an agreement like that?

In the end, it was all for naught. Aaron hadn't gotten the surgical procedure, for he fell into a beast- infested abyss and became food for wild predators.

"Mr. Carter..

The two men from the organ procurement center were frightened by Zayn's ferocious glare and the

violence that rippled off him.

They didn't bother asking Zayn How much he would repay them. They exchanged a brief look and bolted from the apartment.

"Lolo!" Zayn cried, his voice breaking as he caressed Willow's charred face like he was in a trance.

"Don't worry, Lolo! I won't let anyone take you away!

"I'll give you a proper burial like you wanted! I won't let you get lost. How else will you replace your way to me

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when it's my turn to go to the great beyond?

"Lolo... My Lolo..."

Investigations revealed that the fire was caused by arson, but the surveillance cameras along Bordello. were found to have been intentionally destroyed.

Whoever was behind this had taken precautions and committed a seamless crime, turning this into an

unsolved case.

The fire became headline news, but incidents like this were happening too often in modern society. Within the blink of an eye, the fire at Bordello and Willow's death became old news.

A beautiful but tragic tale made its rounds through Havenpoint three days later.

Rumor had it that Zayn was in love with someone else. His heart did not belong to Skyler but to some

unnamed mystery woman.

Rumor also had it that something terrible happened to the mystery woman during Zayn and Skyler's engagement ceremony. After that, Zayn abandoned Skyler at the party so he could rush to his true love's

aid.

Unfortunately, Zayn's desperation could only do so much, for his true love had taken her own life by the

time he reached her.

According to sources, his true love

had ended her own life because she m

couldn't come to terms with Zayn and Skyler's engagement, which left her to settle for being a mistress he had to hide away forever.

Rumor had it that while the mystery woman was still alive, Zayn had mo

honest woman out of her and intended to keep her as a mistress forever.

plans to make an hoe no

However, he only realized his feelings for her after her death. He had loved her for a long time, but it was

too late.

She was gone, and no amount of regret on his part could bring her back to life.

All Zayn could do was hold onto over it.

hor corpse and cry

Rumor had it that the mystery

woman was so stunning that Zayn's heart was not the only one she had captured, but Kenan's and Matthew's as well.

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