Permanent

This chapter is dedicated to @Lola. 

Alicia's breath got caught somewhere between her throat and her lungs.

She could not react. She tried… but she just could not. All she could do was to only stare back at him.

A proposal from Ezekiel was the last thing she had ever expect. He had already decided to leave this world, and she fully understood that there was no other way out for him, for them. So why… what was the meaning of this? Was there even any reason why he wanted to continue with this?

Her heartbeat drummed within her chest and sent the blood whooshing so hard in her ears. Despite the questions that had popped in her mind, her heart was swelling with so much joy that it was now literally threatening to burst out of her chest.