“Abella, are you awake?”

Abella nodded her head. Cade’s tired face came into her eyes. A disorganized expression and an atmosphere that was not strange even if he collapses at any moment. Cade was as tired as Abella was.

Abella sat across from Cade.

Kiya came out of the kitchen and looked at the two of them, and then ran back inside.

“I don’t think you’re going to eat!”

The chirping voice faded away. She was sorry to Kirpa and Timur, and was disturbing the three-family dinner time. Abella smiled bitterly.

“How did you get here?”

“.... Well. I came after you.”

“You have work to do.”

And although Cade looks indifferent, he was in love with the Empire. He wasn’t the kind of person to throw his work away and come this far. Although he looked rough, he was sincere and attentive.

“There is something more important than that.”

Cade’s eyes, which met Abella, were blazing as if they had been ignited in flames. Cade leaned his body closer to Abella.

“You are more important to me, Abella. I will follow you to the end wherever you go. I ..... Abella, I cannot live without you.”

Although it was a blunt confession, Abella could not read the emotions that were boiling in it.

‘It’s because of me.’

It was none other than Abella who made Cade, who was always proud, like that. Cade said in a sighed voice.

“I don’t know what else to do now, Abella.”

Cade was exhausted and it was Abella’s fault. Abella’s weakness had brought Cade down to that point. Abella’s lips trembled.

“I don’t know what to do to hold you.”

Cade vomited his heart out. Cade’s shoulders trembled as he buried his face in his palms.

“I think I’m crazy, Abella. The thought of letting you go, even though I know I should wish for your happiness, it breaks my heart. I am anxious and sick.”

Abella’s gaze wandered through the air.

“What can I do, Abella?”

Abella placed her hand on Cade’s trembling hand. Cade, who always looked only strong, was now looking weak, it broke Abella’s heart.

“.. .. Be happy, Cade.”

“When you are happy.....”

“I want you to be happy.”

“I want you to be happy too.”

The conversation like a turntable wasn’t boring at all. Rather, her heart ached at Cade’s affectionate feeling. It seems that her past foolishness, when she thought there was no one, seems to emerge more. If she had just looked around without being stupid, could she have avoided the current misfortune?

The time that has already passed has left scars for everyone, and the time that has passed was too long to fathom the future. The white gray hair caught between Cade’s hair, who was in his 30s, disproved that time. Amerigo had to lose Carlo and her father as Abella was not going to do anything.

If her father, who was a strong shield, had not died in the accident, he might have been able to envision a better future. If it was her first time to return and was clumsy, then it might be different. Even if it was a vain hope, it was also the best option Abella could do for everyone.

Abella’s eyes turned dark. Cade, who still prays for her happiness, remains in her mind to the point of being foolish.

Timur said.

The choice was always Abella’s.

“.... My happiness belongs to you, Abella. I smile when you smile and cry when you cry Maybe it’s an obsession. Maybe it’s my lingering feelings. But.....”

Cade’s sighs trembled intermittently.

“Don’t leave me, Abella.”

It was then that Abella found the tears welling up in his eyes. Cade was falling apart because of Abella.

‘What have I done.’

Cade’s shattered heart could be seen wandering around his eyes like fragments. The dark red eyes staring at Abella were in danger as if it would break at any moment. As expected, Abella wasn’t the only one who was in a mess.

Cade pressed his lips to the back of Abella’s hand.

It seems that his exhausted heart was being conveyed.

Abella swallowed her tears.

“Cade.”

Abella rested her own forehead against Cade’s forehead. His body temperature was transmitted to her.

“I’m sorry that I only know this way.”

“What?”

Abella smiled softly. She’s already messed up with tears, so her sincerity may be conveyed, but she did her best to smile.

“I’m sorry, Cade.”

Abella whispered in a low voice. A glimpse of Cade’s anxious face over a hazy field of vision.

Time is also what Abella has to pay for turning back time.

Ten years’ worth of her life will be cut iff.