Chapitre 18: What Next?

Would you grieve if I died?

For a moment, Landon could hear her voice whisper in his ears like a ghost hovering above him.

The words he had tried not to agonize about came back at him, punching him in the gut until he couldn't breathe.

Like a wet dog shaking away water from its body, Landon also tried to shake the truth out of him.

But his grip on the paper tightened as he continued to read Lucy's medical result.

Lucy was diagnosed with stage-two ovarian cancer.

Landon felt the strength in his legs leaving him. He could hear his secretary saying something and also sensed him supporting him, but his soul seemed to have left his body.

"Sir!"

"Mr. Westwood!"

Alaric called out a few times, but Landon didn't react to his voice.

"I'm fine." Landon heard himself answering.

But the truth is, he was far from fine.