After I Left They All Said They Loved Me Chapter 07

After I Left They All Said They Loved Me Chapter 07

He pushed the door open. 

Vivian jumped in fright, forcing a smile as she looked at him: “What is it?” 

Caleb said nothing at all, only telling her to get 

some rest early. 

Vivian breathed a sigh of relief. 

But only from my vantage point could one see how dark and menacing Caleb’s expression was. 

He went to Mom and Dad, spilling the entire truth 

to them. 

Met by the horrified stares of Mom and Dad. 

Trembling just as he had, they opened that soaked 

diary. 

Mom covered her mouth: 

“Why was she so foolish?” 

“If we had only known sooner, would she not have 

suffered so much?” 

She shed anxious tears. 

But that was inherently an unanswerable question. 

Because if I were still alive, the system would 

never have allowed me to speak of these things. 

That brass padlock had been forcefully 

manifested by the system to begin with. 

Dad’s hands trembled, his eyes glued to my 

framed photograph. 

“No wonder I wasn’t hurt during that electrical 

short the other day.” 

“We survived unharmed so many times before. I 

thought we were just extremely lucky.” 

He took a deep breath. 

The look he gave Caleb held a newfound 

eagerness. 

“Doesn’t the fact that Evie successfully pursued 

you for her objective mean you’re not an ordinary 

person?” 

“Do you have any way to fix this?” 

Sadly, Caleb did not. 

He stayed silent and lowered his head, his eyes no longer daring to meet Mom and Dad’s faces 

directly. 

“Mom, Dad, I have no way.” 

“Moreover, I stood at the door and heard 

everything Viv did against her. Piece by piece, incident by incident. I simply cannot marry her 

with a clear conscience anymore.” 

Dad frowned. He wanted to speak several times 

but couldn’t articulate a single word. 

His mind was in absolute turmoil. 

As a father, he had already lost one daughter, and he couldn’t let his remaining daughter live in 

misery too. 

But with the truth laid bare before him, what else 

could he do? 

Mom tightly grasped Dad’s hand. 

And taking a deep breath, she made the final 

decision: 

“She must take responsibility for the mistakes she 

made.” 

“But as parents, we bear responsibility too. We failed to raise her right, and we failed to treat our 

children equally.” 

Mom stood up,walking into the bedroom with a 

hunched back.. 

“We’ll pack our bags and find a place right next to 

Willow Grove Cemetery.” 

“We’ll spend every extra day we can 

accompanying Evie. I can’t even fathom how 

miserable she must have been alone during those 

agonizing nights.” 

“As for this house, I’ll leave it to Viv. If we had only 

considered her feelings more before acting, things wouldn’t have turned out this way either.” 

Experiencing such complex emotions once again. 

I furrowed my brows, trembling with sorrow, as 

salty tears rolled down. 

I was stunned for a moment. Could I still shed 

tears in this spectral state? 

Watching them sit there in silence. 

The clock hands ticked forward minute by minute. 

I didn’t blame them. 

But I couldn’t forgive them either. 

Finally, Caleb stood up, bowed to my parents, and 

turned to stride away. 

Under the cover of night, he tripped and fell 

multiple times, arriving at my tombstone covered 

in bruises. 

He fell heavily to his knees. 

Caleb hung his head: 

“Can you forgive me?” 

In the dead of night, there wasn’t even a whisper of 

wind. 

Naturally, he received no response. 

He laughed self–deprecatingly: “Even I can’t forgive 

myself. I loved you so much once; why was I so 

easily swayed by someone else’s few words?” 

“How could someone like me possibly be worth 

you protecting with your very life?” 

“If there’s a next life, don’t ever cross paths with 

someone like me again. I’m not worth it.” 

Tears flowed from Caleb’s eyes. Pressing his 

hands onto the freezing paving stones, he sat 

there motionlessly through the entire night. 

Staring at my black–and–white portrait on the 

headstone, he made up his mind: 

“I will give you an explanation and bring you 

justice.” 

“I will turn myself in to the police, Evie.”