When the pa*senger window of the car was lowered halfway, a good-looking face was revealed. Despite the dim streetlight, Harper could still recognize who he was.
Stunned for a few seconds, she hurriedly over in her high heels and grew certain that it was him when she got nearer.
“Silas.”
With a trembling voice, she called out his name.
The man inside the car slowly curled his lips into a smile, “Hi,
Harper.”
As she had not heard him call out her name for a long time, Harper’s eyes turned sad suddenly, “What brings you here?”
These few days, she had tried to call him, but he either switched off his phone or did not pick up her calls. She also tried to look for him in the Wolverly Capital, but he refused to see her.
Doing so, he seemed to be wanting to sever ties with them, so much so that he no longer recognized her as his sister…
She thought that she would lose him for good and did not expect to see him showing up on the day Griffon proposed to Taya.
Harper wondered if Silas had been following their news, although he never came to bother them.
Silas extended his fingers to catch the snowf lakes outside, and his clear eyes were filled with melancholy.
After staring at the sno wflakes for a while, he replied, “I was pa*sing by as I saw the nice view here, so I stopped to take a look.”
“Pa*sing by?” Harper wondered inwardly, “Who would pa*s by a place so far away from the city and has just been developed not long ago?”
Harper did not believe him but chose not to expose his lie. With her eyes red-rimmed, she asked, “I heard you’re getting engaged to the eldest daughter of the Cooke pack?”
Silas touched the melting snowfl akes in his hand, and the corners of his lips curled up bitterly, “Yes, I am…”
The smile on his face was forced and devoid of any joy, and Harper felt bad for him, “You’re not doing this just so that Taya would choose to be with Griffon, aren’t you?”
Silas shook his head slightly and dropped his bitter smile, trying to look casual, “I’m doing this for myself.”
Seeing him so, Harper was unable to tell what he was thinking and could only choose to believe him, “I wish you happiness then.”
Silas clenched his hand slightly and lowered his gaze in anguish.
“Harper, I’ll never be happy again…” He wanted to tell her.
He looked at Gmissta through the windshield, and his gloomy eyes gradually turned red, “Can you take me inside to have a look?”
Harper followed his line of sight and looked in the direction of Gmissta. Thinking that bringing him inside would upset him, she wanted to refuse, but Silas said, “I just saw him carry her out from inside, and they were wearing happy smiles.”
He looked at Harper with a smile, “I wanted to take a look inside. Perhaps I could come out happily as well.”
Knowing that Silas was still hung up on Taya, Harper was unable to hold back her tears.
With tears in her eyes, she nodded, “Okay, I’ll bring you inside.”
Silas replied politely, “Sorry to trouble you.”
Harper turned away to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes. The three of them had depended on each other since pup period, but they had become like strangers, so much so that she felt they might not meet again for the rest of their lives…
Getting out from the back seat, Camille took out the wheelchair from the trunk, then opened the car door, carried Silas out of the car, and put him in the wheelchair.
Seeing that he had to rely on someone else to move around, Harper could not stop shedding tears, “Could your legs be
cured?”
“He’s a prideful person. Is he going to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair?” Harper couldn’t accept such a truth.
Silas nonchalantly touched his unfeeling legs, “No, but it’s okay. I’m used to it now.”
Harper cried and wanted to say something, but he took
the umbrella from Camille and handed it to her. “Life is unpredictable, and I’ve achieved more than enough. Losing my legs is not a big deal, so please don’t feel sorry for me.”
His calmness made Harper feel even worse, but she suppressed her sadness and reached out to take the
Harper was unable to push the wheelchair in the snow, so she let Camille do it while she shielded Silas from the snow with
the umbrella.
Without saying a word, the two neared Gmissta.
The man in the wheelchair stared at the engraved name in a daze for a while and said in a low voice, “I wanted to build something like this before…”
He wanted to build a place that belonged to him and Taya and named it after them, like Smissta …
The names of Smissta and Gmissta both showed how much they missed and loved Taya.
Silas understood the meaning of the building’s name and curled his lips into a bitter smile, feeling suffocated.
Seeing someone who was once vigorous becoming so thin and fragile, Harper felt sorry for him, “Have you had a rough time lately?”
Silas shook his head again, “I’ve been doing great.”
Pushing the wheelchair, Camille frowned in indignation, “Mr. Sterling, that’s not true. You-”
Sila s’s face fell, “Shut up!”
Unable to express his concern, Camille could only keep quiet.
Seeing this, Harper could tell that Silas must have been devastated after losing Taya.
After all, he loved Taya so much and could not be with her now.
Camille pushed Silas into Gmissta, and the sight of the vast nebulas and auroras inside made the man’s eyes red again.
Silas pushed the wheelchair himself to the center of the “universe”, “Did Griffon Knight propose to her here?”
Surprised, Harper wondered how he could guess correctly, “How did you know?”
Silas let out a half-smile but did not answer. He knew because
if he were to propose to her, he would get down on his knee there as well.
“How wonderful it is to get down on one’s knee in the center of the universe, the most important and beautiful place, and ask his beloved if she would mate him!” He thought.
After sitting there for a long time, he lowered his gaze to the pink flowers all over the floor.
He remembered that Taya used to like red roses, and wondered if she preferred this type of rose now.
“Well, as time goes by, one’s preference is bound to change, just as no one would wait for the same person forever…”
With that in mind, Silas looked at the surrounding auroras.
His gloomy eyes slowly lost their focus as he remembered the past…
She once held his arm with both hands and said, “Silas, promise me that you’ll take me to see the auroras when we are thirty, okay?”
At that time, he put down his pen and raised his hand to scratch the bridge of her nose, “Why must we wait until the age of thirty?”
Pointing to the piles of books on the desk, she said, “Look at all these books. By the time you finish college, get a master’s degree, and a Ph. D., you’ll probably be thirty years old, so I could only make an appointment with you in advance…”
As the young girl in front of him had complained several times that he had been neglecting her for his studies, Silas gave her an indulgent smile, “You don’t have to wait until we’re both thirty. Once I get the scholarship, I’ll buy the tickets and we’ll go see the auroras. You can start thinking now about which country you want to go to.”
When the girl heard that he was going to take her to see the aurora, she quirked her eyebrows and smiled happily, “It
doesn’t matter which country I go to, as long as you’re by my side.”
But later, he forgot to take her to see the auroras for the sake of his matches, and she didn’t blame him for it.
Thinking about it now, he hoped that she would not be so sensible. If she had blamed him more often, perhaps he would be the one who saw the auroras with her instead of Griffon.
Silas smiled, but his tears suddenly rolled down despite himself.
“What a joke! What right do I have in remembering the past? I was the one who kept her waiting…” He blamed himself
inwardly.
She had asked him many times, “Silas, when are you going to mate me and give me a home?”
He always used the excuse of giving her a better life in the future and didn’t take the initiative to propose to her.
It never occurred to him that what Taya wanted was not a wealthy life.
All she wanted from the beginning to the end was complete devotion and a home filled with love.
Realizing that by now, Silas slumped in the wheelchair with a pale face.
He raised his fingers to cover his eyes, but the lips under his high-bridged nose slowly parted.
“Harper, don’t tell her that I’ve been here…”
He knew that Taya had found a man who could not only give her a home but was also willing to die for her.
He, however, was just a young man who used to keep her waiting in the past, and he thought it was best for him to
remain so forever.