Chapter 8
Adrian drove very quickly. The silhouettes outside the car window streaked by us in a flash. He gnashed his teeth together tightly, and his defined jaw was extremely tense the whole time. He was so nervous that his eyes were glued to the front no matter what.
I wanted to tell Adrian that there was no need to drive this quickly. I wasn’t in a hurry to pass on, after all. The next thing I knew,
Adrian slowed down the car. It was as if he could hear my thoughts.
He said with a smile, “We’re almost there, Ophelia. Are you scared?”
A trace of undefined emotions that I couldn’t decipher could be seen in his eyes.
I shook
my
head. I wasn’t scared at all.
Adrian’s lips curled into a smile. He replied happily, “It’s good that you’re not scared at all, Ophelia. Please… don’t put yourself
through this kind of torture ever again in your next life.”
Stunned, I mouthed back silently, “Okay.”
Soon, the car slowed to a halt at the beach, but Adrian didn’t get out of the car for a while. He just gripped the steering wheel with
trembling hands.
We both knew that it’d spell our actual goodbye once we got out of the car, so I placed my hand on the back of Adrian’s hand. I
knew that he couldn’t feel my touch, but I still wanted to do that.
Adrian finally smiled at me. “Let’s get out of the car.”
He removed the necklace from his neck. There was a small glass bottle hanging from the chain. My ashes were stored in that
bottle.
I followed Adrian down the sandy shore. He had his hands in his pockets, and a smile was playing on his lips.
Having noticed that my body was becoming more and more transparent, I decided to stop next to a reef rock.
“This is the spot, then?”
I nodded.
“Alright. This is it.”
