Chapter 1546: 1546. He has been enduring it.
During the second year after her graduation, the director fell seriously ill, and died with no cure.
At that time, Elly Campbell had already left a divorce agreement with Adam Jones and moved to the United States, and the two hadn’t been in touch for years.
The news of the director’s death was something she learned from Helen Melendy later.
Back then, she spoke casually, as if everything had already passed.
But Elly could imagine that the director was more intimate to her than her own mother; suddenly losing someone like a mother would be a devastating blow to her.
Originally, after so many years, she had finally walked out of the sorrow of the director’s death. Now, her memory is stuck nine years ago.
At that time, the director had not yet passed away.
Now, it’s equivalent to her having to relive the sorrow of the director’s death all over again.
It’s truly cruel to her.
Thinking about how she might not be able to walk in the future, Elly felt a sharp pain in her heart, her nose suddenly tingled, and she turned away.
"I just... just called the director, but... no one answered. I... I called the orphanage, and Jane said... said the director passed away five years ago."
Helen Melendy sobbed as she spoke, like a lost child unable to find their way.
Harry Hall looked at her in this state and felt deeply pained.
However, he did not know about the director’s death.
Back then, she suddenly broke up with him without explaining anything, and walked away without saying a word.
They reunited three years later.
He only heard about the director’s death from Helen last year.
Although he didn’t know the details, it didn’t prevent him from comforting her.
"Helen, the director got sick, leaving was also a relief for her, don’t be sad."
He sat next to her, gently stroking her long hair, continuing to comfort her:
"Although you couldn’t make her live a long life, during her last days, you were always by her side, taking care of her, accompanying her. Even though she eventually passed away, you were with her until the end, she left peacefully and contentedly."
"Is that true?"
Helen Melendy, with red eyes, looked up at him and asked hoarsely.
"It’s true, if you don’t believe it, you can ask the others at the orphanage."
Harry genuinely wasn’t deceiving her.
Last year, she told him many things she had been through after they broke up, including the director’s death.
That matter was a huge blow to her, and he regretted immensely not asking questions, not stopping her when she said they should break up and simply walked away, leaving her to face those dark, difficult days alone.
At the time he thought, she wanted to break up, so he gave her freedom, not to be overly entangled, to avoid them both ending in an embarrassing situation, to part amicably.
Despite living for those three years without her, he held on, gritting his teeth and getting through those days.
The laughable thing was, he thought he had genuinely gotten past it, and assumed he was still rational as always, until he heard a voice identical to hers at Jones, and rushed out frantically.
Upon seeing a business card with her name on Adam Jones’s desk, his presumed rationality and self-control were completely devoured in an instant.
It was in that moment he realized, all those three years, he had merely been enduring, and hadn’t truly gotten over it at all.