Chapter 9

He didn't look at her as he turned and walked away. Only a fleeting pain in his chest caught his attention.

He returned to the zoo, walking through the night to the basement.

This was a temporarily unused area in the farthest corner of the zoo.

The closer he got, the more he could smell a foul odor.

He entered the basement and saw only scattered tape on the ground, breathing a sigh of relief.

Just as he was about to happily turn and head back, a box in the corner caught his eye.

He remembered clearly that there hadn't been a box here before.

The smell was also coming from there.

In the three steps it took to walk towards the box, his back was drenched in cold sweat.

The history of his relationship with me flashed through his mind like a zoetrope.

He had entered my life with ulterior motives, I had pursued him, we got together, married, and I became pregnant.

He admitted to himself that he had fallen in love with me.

When did it change? Since meeting Ember.