Chapter 22

[Lionel de Eduard]

A small cursor blinked endlessly above the private chat window.

She wanted to know. How Lionel had been doing all this time. And she was curious. What Lionel was doing right now.

She only had to send a message to ask right away, but she simply could not bring herself to do it.

To Jaelin, Lionel was the sun floating in the immeasurably high sky. Dazzlingly shining and radiant, and precisely because of that, someone she could not dare approach first, nor even hope for.

The feeling called love that had taken root in Jaelin’s heart the moment she first encountered Lionel had not faded at all with the passage of time.

It still gripped Jaelin’s heart tightly and fed on it, still growing even now.

Most of the time it lay quietly without a trace, but the mere thought of Lionel made its roots announce their…