“I’m going to call for the doctor!” Noah rose immediately, but Gwynn grabbed his arm with her shriveled fingers, which were uncharacteristically strong now.

Her eyeballs dilated. The next thing she knew, she could no longer see Noah clearly even though she was looking right at him. It was as if someone put a veil in front of her eyes.

The cancerous cells must’ve spread through to her eyeballs. She was slowly losing her sight now.

It was such an unexpected change, but she accepted it gracefully.

A tear fell on the back of his hand. It was so cold that it chilled him to the bones. She flashed him the faintest smile he had ever seen and mouthed the words.

“I don’t love you anymore, Noah.

“It’s too much torment trying to love you and I’ve waited for you to love me back for far too long…”

Her mind traveled back to when they first met each other in Brookesville three years ago.

She was merely twenty-one years old back then. Liam had done too good a job at protecting her from the