My mother’s voice was trembling,
“Don’t you know Julia can’t swim?! She almost drowned last month and nearly dead!”
My father was so angry that he took off his shoe and started hitting William with it:
“Why are you being so arrogant? Every time I go to your pack to see Julia, she was always cleaning up dog poops!”
Several relatives also stood up and started scolding William:
“Are you really like Julia? You’ve delayed the mating gifts until now, but our family doesn’t care anymore!”
William felt like his heart was being pulled apart.
But the mating gifts, he had clearly prepared them a long time ago.
Turning his head and seeing Rita biting his lower lip guiltily, he understood that Rita canceled mating gifts without his permission.
Rita was so scared that she retreated repeatedly, pulling William to escape.
Chopter R
But William wouldn’t move.
He was like a statue nailed to this red carpet, his gaze sweeping around.
This was exactly the mating ceremony he’d dreamed of.
No disruption from Rita, no malicious gossip.
Only me wearing a mating dress, standing beside the elder, smiling peacefully and happily.
He suddenly realized, this was the mating ceremony I should have had.
The emotions in his heart churned and piled up, and he, like a stone statue, completely collapsed at this moment. Tears fell to the ground, and he choked so much he could barely speak:
“Julia, I’m sorry.”
“I know how much you suffered.”
“Now, just watching you stand with someone else in a mating dress tears me apart.”
“Then back then, Idrilled our mating ceremony with Rita 20 times. How much more do you hurt?”
“And I even said those awful words. I never truly stood by your side. I’ll never have you turn back to me, right?”
/He knelt down, unable to say anything more, and could only curl up on the ground and weep bitterly.
“Right.”
I would be sad, and bitter, and recall all the grievances I swallowed alone.
But I discovered, they had already vanished.
So, I gently spoke, my tone calm:
“William, I’m not someone who will always wait for you.”
“I was pushed away by your own hand.”
“But it doesn’t matter anymore, things are gone.”
Hearing this sentence of forgiveness, William’s tears flowed even more fiercely…
