After I Left They All Said They Loved Me Chapter 05

After I Left They All Said They Loved Me Chapter 05

“What nonsense are you talking about?” 

Caleb mumbled under his breath, yet he grabbed 

his coat and rushed out the door the next instant. 

With some time left before completely 

disconnecting from the world, I floated by Caleb’s 

side as a spirit. 

I watched him grip the steering wheel with a 

deathly tightness. 

But somehow, for no apparent reason, the brakes 

failed. 

A look of horror crossed his face, and this time, he 

didn’t miraculously avert the danger. 

Caleb crashed into a tree, his head throbbing with 

severe pain. 

He suddenly remembered that in the foreseen 

future, there was exactly a scene like this. 

“None of those previous predictions ever came 

true, not even once.” 

“Was Evie doing this on purpose?” Caleb muttered, 

pulling out his phone just as he passed out. 

He lay in the hospital ward while Vivian wept 

endlessly by his side. 

“You got in an accident, and Mom and Dad are 

hurt too. What am I supposed to do?” 

Caleb struggled to open his eyes. 

“What did you say?” 

“Say that again?” 

A terrible premonition surged into his heart. 

He simply couldn’t believe his own ears. 

It had only been one short night. Even if Evie 

wanted revenge, she was just one person. 

Caleb propped his body up and sat up. 

He felt as if his internal organs were all aching. 

He grabbed Vivian’s arm: 

“Where is Evie? Is she really dead?” 

Something flickered across Vivian’s face–too 

quick, too bright–and then it was gone, swallowed 

by a mask of concern: 

“How could my sister be dead?” 

“Should I accompany you to go look for her?” 

Caleb shook his head, asking his secretary to send 

the location to Vivian’s phone. 

Dragging his frail, injured body along–not 

because he wasn’t in pain, but because he was 

simply too afraid. 

The secretary had transported my body to the 

Wayfare Funeral Home. 

Caleb couldn’t even handle it before getting close. 

He collapsed to his knees, shakily reaching out his 

hand. 

Then abruptly recoiled it. 

“How is this possible!” 

“I just wanted to provoke her and make her 

jealous! How could it end up costing her life?” 

He shivered. 

Failing to stand up after several attempts. 

The secretary had to prop him up, and only then 

did he barely manage to stand steady, stumbling 

slightly. 

“When Ms. Miller was discovered, she was deep 

inside an undeveloped patch of the Silver Lake Ridge woods. It was swarming with venomous 

snakes and bugs.” 

He pointed at my purplish lips. 

“Ms. Miller had terrible luck and encountered the 

most venomous type there. By the time I arrived, she had already stopped breathing.” 

“It’s my fault. If I had taken a shortcut and arrived 

earlier, she might have survived.” 

Caleb’s neck went stiff. 

Inch by inch, he turned his head: 

“What do you mean?” 

“What do you mean by an ‘undeveloped patch of woods‘? How could there be a place like that out 

there?” 

Clinging to a tiny thread of hope, Caleb kept denying it, opening the GPS app with trembling 

hands. 

Then he slammed his phone screen off. 

The secretary was bewildered, but Vivian leaned in 

closer instead: 

“My sister really is something else. Why would she 

run off to a place like that? Isn’t she just making 

us worry about her on purpose?” 

Caleb maintained his rigid posture. 

His head pounded in waves of pain: “It was me. I 

caused all of this!” 

“If I had just pulled her up, Evie wouldn’t have died.” 

I watched him with cold detachment. 

Watching Caleb lose emotional control time and 

time again. 

Yet I felt absolutely nothing. 

He frantically grabbed hold of me, and upon feeling the ice–cold temperature, his entire body 

shuddered once more: 

“Aren’t you a participant of the system?” 

“Don’t you have the System? How could you die? 

You’re lying to me, aren’t you? I already know I was 

wrong.” 

He looked like a madman: “As long as you sit up 

right now, we’ll get married immediately, okay?” 

“I was just lying to you. Viv said doing that would 

make you jealous and prove whether you were just using me or genuinely cared.” 

Vivian’s expression faltered. 

She reached out and gently patted Caleb’s back, 

speaking tentatively: 

“So what are we going to do moving forward?” 

Caleb didn’t register the question immediately. 

He merely responded mechanically: 

“Evie is gone, so our agreement should end here 

too.” 

Vivian’s body stiffened. 

She wanted to say something more, but Mom and 

Dad arrived hurriedly from behind. 

Their faces looked haggard. 

Even before getting close, they spoke up: 

“What is going on here?” 

“Everything was perfectly fine. How did it end up 

like this?” 

Mom tried to step forward, but Dad grabbed her 

arm. 

He looked at my face, then hesitantly turned to 

Mom. 

“It’s Evie.” 

He clenched his jaw: “I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle seeing it.” 

“Back when Evie traded away her emotions, you 

cried until your eyes nearly went blind.” 

Mom just kept shaking her head. 

Clinging tightly to Dad’s hand, she turned her head 

to look at Caleb: 

“What exactly happened here?” 

“We felt exhausted, and we did think about 

abandoning her, but… those were all just angry 

words!” 

“Didn’t you say you rented an apartment for Evie 

out in the suburbs?”