CHAPTER 20
There are things in life that come back, not because they should, but because they were never really gone. Memories. Feelings. People. Chen.
It had been three days since our presentation, and life had gone back to its predictable rhythm—or at least, it tried to. My classes kept me grounded, lectures gave me purpose, and even the smallest academic routine helped me avoid the quiet thoughts that lived inside me. Thoughts of Chen, of us—of everything we were and everything we’d destroyed.
And yet, as much as I tried to stay grounded, he still found a way to float into my life like fog—subtle, unavoidable, present.
He wasn’t a student here anymore. He hadn’t been for years. He was a man with a company, one who made money faster than he spent it. But what bothered me wasn’t his s
