Rosalie was wearing a red dress and sitting on a rocking chair on the terrace. The breeze blew by, bringing up her short shoulder-length hair.
Under the blue sky and white clouds, the dappled sunlight fell across her face through the tree branches, making her look calm and beautiful.
When the video started, she did not speak, just stared at the camera.
She seemed to see her lover through the lens, which made her a little excited and a little confused.
After staring for a long time, she slowly raised the corners of her lips with a gentle and elegant smile.
“Amon.”
She called out his name in a trembling voice that she seemed to have a lot of reluctance.
When Amon saw her calling him, the tears he had been holding back suddenly rolled down his face.
Rosalie, his Rosalie, the Rosalie who disappeared from this world and would never return….
Rosalie, on the screen, had her eyes red after calling his name, but she kept smiling while looking at the camera.
“I don’t know if you can see this video. But I still want to explain it to you before I leave.”
“Amon, I agreed to mate Casare, not because I love him, but because if I don’t, he won’t help me save you.”
“The man you ran over with your car was Casare’s brother.”
“He’s an orthodox royal member. I’m worried that if you go to prison, you’ll never get out.”
“I know you hate Casare, but I didn’t know how to help you, so I had to ask him for help.”
“I’m sorry…”
When she said this, Rosalie fell weakly onto the rocking chair, struggling for a while before finally catching her breath.
She looked at the camera with a pale face, and her red eyes were endlessly expressing her apologies to him.
“Amon, I’ve always wanted to visit you in prison, but the royal pack did not let me in, I’m quite useless, right?”
When Amon saw Rosalie, thin and weak, snuggled in a recliner, her muscles shriveled to the point of no strength, his heart suddenly hurt to the point of suffocation and his tears could not be controlled and kept falling down.
“Rosalie, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…”
On the screen, Rosalie seemed to sense Amon’s reaction and braced herself again, moving closer to the camera.
“Amon, Grace is really your daughter, the one I conceived before you went to prison.”
“I wanted to tell you on your birthday.”
“But that night, I was molested by Casare’s brother, and it made you want to kill him.”
“I haven’t had time to tell you yet, and then I don’t have a chance after that…”
Amon turned his head, unable to bear to look at Rosalie
again, but her voice kept entering his ears.
“I have been sorry for you all along, Amon.”
“What I’m most sorry for is that someone gave me something to drink that I shouldn’t have.”
“That night, I was completely unaware, so I took Casare who came in as you…”
“I betrayed you, so when you forced me to explain, I couldn’t say anything, I could only admit it.”
“Because I did betray you…”
Amon raised his hands, covered his eyes, covered his ears, and tried to stand up, not wanting to hear any more.
But he was tied tightly to the chair and couldn’t escape no matter what. All he could do was to hear Rosalie saying over and over again that she had betrayed him!
The scene of her and Casare on the bed, like a nightmare, crazily drilled into his mind
Back then, that was how he was tied to the chair, watching from afar through the floor-to-ceiling window, unable to do anything!
Amon felt like he was going crazy as he frantically struggled, but he couldn’t break free of the chains he was locked in!
He could only fall back on the back of the chair in despair, with sad eyes, staring at Rosalie on the screen, who was also crying desperately.
“Amon, I’ve always been pursuing you.”
“I’ve been pestering you ever since I fell in love with you when I was fourteen. My behavior must have been very distressing to
you.”
“Now, I have disease and may not live long. After I leave, no
one will pester you again.”
“If, I mean if, if you remember me, you can visit my grave.”
Rosalie lowered her head to look at her hands, which had atrophied to yellow, raised the corners of her lips and smiled in relief.
“I remember that the first time I held hands with you, I was the one who took the initiative.”
“At the time, I thought you would drive me away, but you didn’t, so I dared to pursue you.”
“I may have been influenced too much by liberalism and I always acted recklessly. I didn’t know that one person’s obsession could bring harm to another.”
After she finished speaking, she raised her head, faced the camera, and smiled gently again.
“When I was a teenager, I was so ignorant that I still ran after you when it was clear that you disliked me so much.”‘
“But I don’t regret loving you. Life is so short. No one knows when they themselves will be gone. Why should I regret it?”
“Isn’t it?”
Rosalie paused and turned her head to look away, crystal-like tears rolling down from the corners of her eyes.
“My only regret is that, I never heard you say you love me.”
“Many times, I wonder, do you love me or not?”
“If you love me, why you never say you love me.””
“If you don’t love me, why did you agree to be with me?”
“Since we’re together, why haven’t you been lukewarm to me these past six years?”
“Amon, I really want to know the reason. I also want to hear you say you love me, but I can’t wait for your answer…”
Rosalie lifted her skinny fingers, wiped away the tears that were unconsciously running down the corners of her eyes, and looked into the camera.
“Amon, I left nothing for you in this world, only Grace.”
“If you can see this video, could you please give her a name?”
“If you don’t want her to take your last name, then let her take mine.”
Rosalie seemed to have finished what she wanted to say, and stretched out her finger, intending to stop the video recording.
But when it almost touched the screen, it suddenly stopped.
Rosalie looked at the camera with eyes full of reluctance.
“Amon.”
She called his name again, still in a trembling voice. “Sorry, I love you…”
Then the video was cut off and the entire theater went black.
Amon leaned back in the chair, staring at the screen with red eyes.
It was as if his soul had been drained away and he felt powerless, like a living dead.
His Rosalie really betrayed him, and she really could not come back…
The ridiculous thing was that he obviously loved her very much, but he never admitted it, leaving her to die without knowing that he loved her.