To the Love of My Life-Chapter 894 - The One He Loves is Back (Part 7)_1
Chapter 894: Chapter 894 The One He Loves is Back (Part 7)_1
Howard Coleman stood unblinkingly by Rusell Henris’ side, watching Madeleine.
The atmosphere in the private room had become slightly awkward.
Just as Rusell Henris hesitated about whether to break the silence, Howard Coleman’s long eyelashes fluttered gently, and he stepped forward, stopping half a meter in front of Madeleine to ask, “You’re back?”
His voice was still the familiar tone she remembered, so familiar that it caused her some heartache.
Some say that ex-lovers can’t be friends, but before Madeleine and Howard Coleman broke up, she knew that they were bound to meet again, and to interact daily. So, before she left, she had left him with a phrase, that upon meeting again, they would forget the past; she would be Madeleine, and he would be Howard.
No matter how stirred Madeleine’s emotions were deep down, as soon as Howard Coleman finished speaking, she quickly put on a smile and said, “Yes, Howard, I’m back.”
Madeleine spoke with an ease as if she and he had always been just Madeleine and Howard, as though there had never been that marriage between them.
But nobody knew the heart-wrenching pain behind her feigned ease; the term “Howard” was not just her way of telling him she wouldn’t cling to him as in the past. It was also a signal to herself that this man, no matter how much she loved him, would ultimately never be hers again.
When Howard Coleman heard the words “Howard” from Madeleine’s lips, he was sharply reminded of the last time he saw her, the last thing she said to him.
Now, they had finally met again. She called him “Howard,” no longer the “Coleman” from after their marriage. Did this mean that she had truly let go of him?
Howard Coleman was silent.
Madeleine thought to herself that since she had chosen to return to being just friends with Howard Coleman, even if she cared for him, she must revert back to the way she had been when she secretly loved him. So, suppressing the ache in her heart, she smiled jokingly at him, her tone still light and breezy, “Howard, Rusell Henris and Edward Woods both gave me a hug. What are you standing there for? Don’t you welcome me back?”
Howard Coleman really wanted to respond as Howard used to, to banter playfully with Madeleine. But he found he simply couldn’t muster the slightest bit of mood for it and ended up just managing to steady himself, offering Madeleine a faint smile, “How dare I.”
With that, Howard Coleman opened his arms toward Madeleine.
Madeleine gazed at Howard Coleman’s embrace for a second before walking forward two steps with a gentle smile, reaching out to wrap her arms around his waist, hugging him.
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But that embrace was brief, almost fleeting upon contact.
Madeleine was the first to pull away because she didn’t have the courage to cling to him a moment longer as she had with Steve Burton, Rusell Henris, and Edward Woods.
She was afraid that if she stayed in his arms too long, she would develop an attachment, shaking the hard-won resolve she had to let go of him.
Howard Coleman felt only the familiar scent of the woman as it rushed to his nose, followed by a soft presence in his arms, which then quickly departed.
His whole being lingered in a daze before he realized his hands were still in the posture of an embrace, and then they awkwardly dropped to his sides.
[It turns out that loving but not daring to love is the most agonizing… Writing this has been torturous for me too~]
