Chapter 5

Seeing that name, the kidnapper finally stopped what he was doing and turned off the livestream. A glimmer of hope rose in my heart once again.

Elliot, Elliot, you finally knew. You were coming to save me.

But when I opened the video in the message, from the angle, it was clear Neve had shot it. The sender was also Neve.

The video showed a beach. It was already dark.

My husband was shouting at the camera on the shore.

"Sweetie, look! This is bioluminescent plankton. I've finally brought you to see bioluminescent plankton! I've finally made your wish come true!"

The man who had always been calm and composed in my memory was now like a teenager madly in love.

His heart and eyes were full of another woman.

So it wasn't that he had a calm personality; it was just that in his eyes, I wasn't someone worth his passion.

The man I had loved for eight whole years had never, for a single moment, truly belonged to me.