Chapter 157: Sentenced to Love, Doomed to Eternal Loneliness.

The morning sun pierced through the clouds and fell upon the harbor, a cool breeze brushing across everyone's faces. Noah Bates's heart seemed to abruptly stop beating in that moment. He stared, transfixed, at the now tranquil sea, like a statue... with its soul hollowed out.

He looked in the direction where Wayne Don had jumped, shivering uncontrollably as if in a spasm, after a long while.

The child's mobile phone he was clutching slipped and crashed at his feet.

The morning scenery was so beautiful, yet so cruel.

He felt as if he had been abandoned, as if the whole world had left him alone. Noah's eyes reddened, his chest tightened, and a stabbing pain spread throughout his body.

Shaking, he opened the child's phone, which contained several recordings. Staring at the play button on the screen, Noah was suddenly too frightened to press it.