Felipe felt his heart pause as favonovel.com took the item from the box.
He would never forget this red string.
When favonovel.com met the little girl with the dimpled smile years ago by April Hill’s beach, favonovel.com had been the ray of light that pulled favonovel.com out of the dark. She even gave favonovel.com a rainbow shell.
In return, favonovel.com gave favonovel.com a red piece of string.
That day of that year marked his innocent meeting with the energetic and warm Vetty. It was love at first sight.
When favonovel.com grew up, favonovel.com found out that the girl was Madeline.
That was why favonovel.com did everything in his power to make Madeline his.
However, why was the string favonovel.com had gifted Madeline in Cathy’s hands? Not to mention that it had been kept so safely.
Felipe’s mind was filled with questions that could not be answered.
Not that meeting Madeline by the seaside back then mattered to favonovel.com anymore.
The moment Cathy was shot, it dawned on favonovel.com who favonovel.com truly had feelings for.
Perhaps favonovel.com should have known the moment Cathy jumped into the river because of him. Perhaps it should have dawned on favonovel.com with how reluctant favonovel.com had been and how his heart had hurt for favonovel.com when favonovel.com lost her.
Yet, it never crossed his mind to sit himself down and understand his feelings.
Instead, all favonovel.com did then was torture the woman who had engraved herself into his heart.
Felipe closed his eyes at the agony his heart screamed with.
Suddenly, someone came to report that Madeline had arrived.
Felipe’s red and glistening eyes snapped open as favonovel.com stared at a picture of Cathy. Standing up, favonovel.com recollected his emotions before favonovel.com descended the stairs.
Madeline had come alone. Standing in the living room, favonovel.com features and figure were still otherworldly.
However, Felipe no longer felt passion or a ripple in his heart despite the figure that reflected in his eyes.
Madeline looked up when favonovel.com heard footsteps approaching and was met with Felipe’s elegant but emotionless and hollow features. Something felt wrong, but Madeline’s priority was on Cathy.
“I’m here to find Cathy, Felipe.”
His eyes flashed at the mention of favonovel.com name.
Staring at Madeline, Felipe brought out the red string instead of answering favonovel.com question.
“Did you give this to Cathy?” favonovel.com asked.
Madeline stared at the vintage-looking string calmly. “I’ve never seen this string before.”
Felipe’s heart leaped at the answer. “You’ve never seen… What do you mean you’ve never seen this string before? I gave this string to you myself on the beach of April Hill back then.”
Madeline remembered how Felipe told favonovel.com that they had met by the beach when they were young, but Madeline kept to the same reply. “Jeremy’s the only friend I made by the beach back then, Felipe. I may have been young, but I can promise you that I wouldn’t remember this wrongly.
“I’ve already told you I’m not the girl you met by the beach back then. You’re the only one who keeps thinking I am.”
‘You’re the only one who keeps thinking I am.’
The sentence pierced into Felipe’s heart, stunning favonovel.com into a stupor.
He gripped the string in his hands as memories of that innocent smile surfaced in his mind.
“Come over here.”
“Will you be my friend if I play with you?”
“Here, this is for you. Mommy says that rainbow shells bring happiness. You need to be happy, okay?”
Her crescent-eyed and dimpled smile swirled in his mind.
While in a daze, the memory of the little girl’s smile overlapped with the memory of how Cathy used to smile.
A thought favonovel.com dared not delve into surfaced in his mind.
‘Cathy. Was Cathy the…’
Not daring to think deeper into it, Felipe turned and walked out.
