I couldn’t help but glare at him, but I still nodded.
Landon immediately hugged me. “I need you to kiss me now too. It hurts so much.”
I slowly stood on my tiptoes and put a gentle kiss on his wound.
Hansen said nothing.
The setting sun caused him to cast a long shadow on the pavement.
Ch 14
Maybe it was the moment when Christine carefully wiped the blood from Landon’s face.
Or maybe it was when she kissed him to soothe him.
But at least, Hansen finally realized that Christine truly didn’t love him anymore.
What Wendy said that day ended up coming true.
Christine would never come back to his side.
He thought he was the one who could easily let go of seven years,
He thought he was the one who had been in control of the relationship.
He thought he would always be the victor.
But at this moment, he finally understood something.
The one who couldn’t let go was him.
Christine had always been the one holding the string on the kite.
Once the string broke, the kite was lost forever. It would never find its way home.
I watched as Hansen turned around and walked back to his car, watching as his lonely figure disappeared.
The evening sun was suddenly swallowed by the horizon.
Hansen’s car drove further and further away.
And at that moment, I seemed to see those seven years I spent, from when I was 17 to 24.
They seemed to vanish into the distance with that car, leaving no trace behind.
I knew, from this day onward, Hansen’s name would be just like any other name in the world.
I wouldn’t force myself to forget him, but I would never think about him again.
“Christine…” Landon gently wrapped me in his arms.
