Chapter 40

Ah... Lance. Was it the Lance from nine years ago? I thought about it for a while. A very, very long while. I took so long that the owner of the voice thought that I would not speak again. Then, I said, "Yes." Yes, but also no. Summer was right. Dixon was the one who had accompanied me for three years. Dixon was also the one with whom I'd been entangled for three years. And nine years ago, Lance had just been a shadow that I had pursued. He was just a glimpse of light from my youth. Even so, I felt really indignant. My heart ached terribly when I thought of that. I placed my hand over my heart and cried, "That's right. I like him. He was the only source of light I pursued in my youth." But this light was my ex-husband's elder brother! I felt overwhelmingly sad and could not help but cry. "I guarded this love happily and followed him silently. No matter how he treated me, all I wanted was his treating me again with the warmth he had once treated me with before. That would hav