"I..."
"Anna Jadwin, this is all your choice. If you're happy, I won't interfere," Wayne Bailey said coldly, "I no longer have any demands on you. I don't ask for your love, I don't ask for you to treat me well, I don't even ask for you to be by my side. I only ask you for one thing."
"What?"
"To stay alive."
Anna Jadwin's heart ached as if it had been struck by a hammer.
"You're going to give the crystal back to him… Your desire to die is a hundred times more cold-blooded and heartless than leaving me," Wayne Bailey said with a hollow smile, "If you leave, I can't accompany you, I have to keep living like a walking corpse. Because you gave me the two best gifts."
Tears suddenly welled up in Anna Jadwin's eyes.
"The best gifts in the world... you left for me to take care of," Wayne Bailey's eyes reddened, "Are you going to leave us behind?"
"Wayne Bailey, I—"
She finally understood the reason for his sudden outburst. It was stimulated by Cathy Xavier's words: