I spent the following days in a solitude heavy with sorrow. I had already fallen far too deeply for the strange man whose life I had saved that night. Yet, I was self-aware enough to know that I could do nothing, nor could I lay claim to any rights, because on the flip side, I had indeed committed a fatal mistake.
He should have received proper medical treatment and regained consciousness much faster if I had immediately brought him to the city hospital that night. However, my blind ego and obsession kept him bound to this dilapidated house instead, harboring a secret desire to possess him all to myself.
Now, he was gone, far out of my reach alongside Rosalina, and I had absolutely no idea where to even begin looking for him.
I let out a long, heavy sigh that felt suffocating in my
