Reborn Before My Captain Fiancé’s Beloved Dies In A Plane Crash Chapter 16
He looked at me, pain and regret spilling from his eyes.
After a long time, he managed a single, choked sentence.
“I’m sorry…”
At last, he understood. Some wounds could never be mended with an apology.
He lowered his head, covered his face, and cried so hard his entire body shook.
I felt nothing.
I gestured for the housekeeper to open the door.
“Mr. Bellini, for the sake of your first love, you killed my child and destroyed my ability to dance.”
“Your debt to me is immeasurable.”
“Because I will never forgive you.”
“The moment you took that beacon from me, we were over.”
*Crack.*
Something split.
Archer lifted his hand and slowly uncurled his fingers.
It was the birthday gift I had given him when I was sixteen.
A custom-made crystal chip.
Engraved on it was a single sentence.
*Archer’s One Free Pass.*
At sixteen, I had shoved it into his hand with a smug grin.
“If you ever make me mad, this can cancel out one punishment. Just one.”
At seventeen, he had laughed and asked me, “What if you’re really, truly mad? What if no amount of apologizing works?”
Sixteen-year-old me had glared at him.
“Then you must have done something truly awful. In that case, of course I won’t forgive you.”
…
So many years had passed.
What seventeen-year-old Archer had said as a joke had become the one line twenty-five-year-old Archer could never cross.