’I wouldn’t have attended the bullsh*t party had I known that this would happen.’

Noticing that Brendan could not be stopped, the hotel manager ordered a bodyguard to follow him.

Brendan ran into the rain, and his body was drenched in just a moment. The rain did not feel like water droplets anymore but more like blades. The coldness of the rain cut into his skin like sharp blades.

He was terrified.

“Deirdre! Deirdre! Come out!”

He searched for her everywhere and he assumed that he would be able to locate her within half an hour. That was far from what actually happened. He ran a few tens of meters and found the woman that was constantly on his mind standing at the bus station.

She was holding an umbrella to shield herself from the rain. Despite the umbrella, her entire body was drenched due to the strong wind.

Her hair was stuck to her drenched clothes, and she was curled up in the corner like an abandoned kitten.

Brendan felt piercing pain in his heart. He reacted to the s