Chapter <b>269</b>


    A million dors. There were times when Zayn threw a party, and a million dors wouldn’t be enough to cover his tab. Yet, the love of his life had signed her corpse away for it.


    Sea burials were all the rage in Havenpoint. The deceased would be cremated and have their ashes scattered across the sea.


    The topic hade up while Zayn and Willow were still in their honeymoon phase.


    He had told her that a sea burial, where one’s remains became one with the sea and drifted freely across the world, had its appeal.


    She had shaken her head vehemently, frowning and pouting as disagreement colored her face.


    e were not


    She didn’t like the idea of sea burials and preferred conventional burials, iming that if one tethered to thend after death, their souls might get lost on the way to the great beyond.


    “You know that being lost terrifies me,” Willow had told Zayn,


    She was slightly superstitious, to be frank.


    While Zayn did not believe in an afterlife, much less in the theory of souls transcending through lifetimes,


    Willow was different.


    Willow stubbornly believed in both the afterlife and that souls were eternal. She didn’t want to get lost on


    her way to the great beyond, thus the appeal of a ground burial.


    And yet, she had signed away those beliefs along with her corpse to an organ procurement center just to


    raise money for Aaron’s surgery.


    Donating one’s corpse meant one could never have a ground burial, and one might get lost on the way to the great beyond. Willow wouldn’t have agreed to donate her corpse unless she was truly desperate.


    How hopeless <b>did </b>she have to be to sign an agreement like that?


    In the end, it was all for naught. Aaron hadn’t gotten the surgical procedure, for he fell into a beast- infested abyss and became food for wild predators.


    “Mr. Carter..


    The two men from the organ procurement center were frightened by Zayn’s ferocious re and the


    violence that rippled off him.


    They didn’t bother asking Zayn How much he would repay them. They exchanged a brief look <b>and </b>bolted from the apartment.


    “Lolo!” Zayn cried, his voice breaking as he caressed Willow’s charred face like he was in a trance.


    “Don’t worry, Lolo! I won’t let anyone take you away!


    “I’ll give you a proper burial like you wanted! I won’t let you get lost. How else will you find your way to me


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    when it’s my <b>turn </b>to go to the great beyond?


    “Lolo… My Lolo…”


    Investigations revealed that the fire was caused by arson, but the surveince cameras along Bordello. were found to have been intentionally destroyed.


    Whoever was behind this had taken precautions andmitted a seamless crime, turning this into an


    unsolved case.


    The fire became headline news, but incidents like this were happening too often in modern society. Within the blink of an eye, the fire at Bordello and Willow’s death became old news.


    A beautiful but tragic tale made its rounds through Havenpoint three dayster.


    Rumor had it that Zayn was in love with someone else. His heart did not belong to Skyler but to some


    unnamed mystery woman.


    Rumor also had it that something terrible happened to the mystery woman during Zayn and Skyler’s engagement ceremony. After that, Zayn abandoned Skyler at the party so he could rush to his true love’s


    aid.


    Unfortunately, Zayn’s desperation could only do so much, for his true love had taken her own life by the


    time he reached her.


    ording to sources, his true love had ended her own life because she couldn’te to terms with Zayn and Skyler’s engagement, which left her to settle for being a mistress he had to hide away forever.


    Rumor had it that while the mystery woman was still alive, Zayn had no ns to make an honest woman out of her <b>and </b>intended to keep her as a mistress forever.


    However, he only realized his feelings for her after her death. He had loved her for a long time, but it wasThis content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.


    toote.


    She was gone, and no amount of regret on his part could bring her back to life.


    All Zayn could do was hold onto over it.


    hor corpse and cry


    Rumor had it that the mystery woman was so stunning that Zayn’s heart was not the only one she had captured, but Kenan’s and Matthew’s as well.


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