Chapter 8

　　“I’m sorry, Alice.”

　　“Mm, I heard you.”

　　I pulled May and tried to leave.

　　Damien stepped in front of us again.

　　He was crying.

　　I looked at him in surprise.

　　Damien took a deep breath.

　　“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have helped Ted keep it a secret.”

　　“You’ll forgive me, right?”

　　“Come back with me. Ted… he’s not doing well.”

　　Hearing Ted’s name, I finally couldn’t stay calm.

　　“What does it matter to me how he’s doing?”

　　Damien seemed anxious. Ted was a good friend of his.

　　Since I left, Ted had been torturing himself like a madman.

　　“Alice, you don’t know how badly Ted is doing.”

　　“Since you left, he started crazily drawing portraits, all of them of you.”

　　“He even had a falling out with Laurel and broke ties with his family.”

　　May spoke coldly from the side.

　　“His pain has nothing to do with Alice. They’ve broken up. A good ex should be treated like they’re dead.”