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Side Story 45

Shan doubted her ears.

“Am I… going to die?”

Why have I?

She couldn’t understand.

If she leave the forest, she’ll die.

The precognitive dream was clear.

Her destiny is to leave this forest, fall in love with a man named Gallahan, and have a daughter named Florentia.

“You must have seen it wrong. That can’t be true.”

Shan shook her head and denied it. Please tell me exactly. What did my mother see?”

Soura said more groaningly over the face of her daughter, who had a hardened face than ever before.

“I received your obituary one winter. The obituary brought by someone who came to me outside the forest.”

“Ha, but that could be a story after a long time.”

“Besides, you have a very young daughter. She wasn’t even a year old.”

“I’m going to die less than a year after giving birth to Tia?”

“Did you even know the child’s name?”

The edge of Soura’s voice stood up.

Shan’s daughter was also Soura’s granddaughter.

However, the name of the child who would not even be born was nothing more than a noise she didn’t want to hear.

“Forget that name. Because you won’t have the child.”

“Mother, those words….”

Shan tried to protest.

No matter how mother she was, she tried to get angry that she shouldn’t say such terrible things.

But for a moment, her eyes were blurred.

At the same time, the landscape of the house they were talking about changed.

She was back in the bedroom she saw in her dream a while ago.

To the place where she smiled happily with Gallahan holding Tia in her arms in the warm sunlight.

Gallahan was still by Shan’s side.

Right next to her, he was holding her hand and weeping.

“Shan…”

His face, messed up with cold tears, touched the back of her hand.

“Please, don’t leave me behind.”

He sobbed.

She wanted to tell him who was in so much pain.

Stop crying, I’m fine.

However, no voice came out.

So, as hard as she could, she tried to squeeze his hand, but only a few fingers moved.

But perhaps that was too much, it was getting harder and harder to breathe.

“Please, ah, please… Shan, no.”

Gallahan hung on like a child.

He fumbled her face with his two hands, kissing her countless times, trying to somehow hold her by her side.

Tears that didn’t know who belonged to were running down Shan’s face.

She was going to say that I also don’t want to leave your side.