Chapter 1038
Widening her eyes, Olivia leaped off the béd. She didn’t even bother putting on her shoes before opening the door. “What did you say?”
Cyril had a panicked look on his face. “I found this in Mr. Miller’s room.
There was a note left for him, telling him to stay here and focus on
recuperating.
There was also a thick envelope.
“When Mr. Miller was poisoned, he thought that he wouldn’t survive,
so he wrote a will and some letters. This is his letter to you.”
Olivia took the heavy envelope. Then, she returned to her room and
opened it.
She immediately saw Ethan’s familiar handwriting. Unlike his wild and
bold signatures, his handwriting was extremely neat. Every stroke
was exquisite like Ethan himself.
“Liv, by the time you read this letter, I should’ve disappeared from this world already.
“When you receive this news, will you be
happy or a little sad? Now
that I’m at death’s door, I realize that I wasn’t as scared as I thought I
would be. My heart is even filled with peace.
“I wonder if I can finally see you when I’m dead?
“In the three years I spent away from you, I was constantly thinking of
you and missing you. I think I must have gotten intoxicated, and you’re the only one who can cure that.
“Don’t worry, Connor has grown much taller, and his body is getting stronger. Our son is quite outstanding, and he received third-class
merit last year.
“I know that you’re going to blame me for not taking good care of him and letting him risk his life..
“But it’s the only way for him to grow up well and quickly enough. That way, even if I die someday, he would be able to continue taking care
of you.
“Without you by his side to guide him, he became a person of few words like me. When I spend time with him, there’s more silence than
communication.
“He often sits in the same spot, holding the small lock you gave him.
He would stare at it all afternoon.
“I know that he misses you a lot. If you’re reading this letter, please go back and visit him in the spring when the cherry trees are blooming.
“You once said that when the cherry trees bloomed, you would go back to visit him. So, every year when the cherry trees are in bloom, he would return to the island where you two had stayed in the past.
“He would wait from dawn to dusk, from when the flowers bloom to
when they wither.
“He would wait for you throughout the whole blooming season.
“Zack and Alicia must’ve gotten much taller too. It’s my lifelong regret that I’ve never heard them call me ‘Dad’. I sincerely love these two
children, but I didn’t carry out my responsibilities as their father.
“I won’t be alive for long, and I’ve already distributed my property evenly. None of those three children will have less than the others.
“As for you, Liv, I have too many things I want to tell you …”
Many words filled the letter. In the second last page, Ethan confessed
to her about Logan.
Olivia’s hands trembled as they held the letter. Logan truly did exist, but he died more than four years ago. That was why Ethan chose to
use his identity.
Back then, Olivia hated Ethan to the bone, so Ethan had no choice but to keep protecting her with another identity.
It was no wonder that he wanted to cover her eyes that night. It was. also no wonder that he knew all her preferences, and she kept feeling
like she saw Ethan in him.
Olivia realized that through it all, Ethan never left her.
The troubles in Olivia’s heart were finally resolved. Willow was Ethan’s
child, just like her siblings.
Near the end of the letter, Ethan’s handwriting grew lopsided. Olivia
almost couldn’t figure out what he was writing.
Olivia thought of him slowly losing his senses.
Under such difficult circumstances, he wrote a sentence, “I’m sorry,
Liv. If I get another chance at life, can you please let me love you
again?”