Her Missing Heart novel Chapter 10

Ethan's words and gaze were suffocating.

After a moment, my frozen mind began turning again.

I shook my head and walked past him...

This path before the police station—I'd walked it countless times with Gabriel.

Now I walked alone...

Following dim streetlights for what felt like forever, I reached the home Gabriel and I once shared.

My first visit in six months.

Opening the door, memories of our life here flooded back, feeling like yesterday.

But dust everywhere reminded me—we'd been apart six months.

Six months that created an unbridgeable chasm between us.

Fighting my emotions, I cleaned everything thoroughly.

Then I opened the painting from the gallery. Retrieved just today, now rain-damaged, Gabriel's face barely an outline.

The blurred colors stabbed my eyes and tore at my heart.

I found a pencil, sharpened it, and began recreating Gabriel's image from memory...

With each scratching sound, he emerged on paper, eyes full of love.

The room was silent except for my phone's constant notifications.

Red-eyed, I opened the messages—readers flooding in, asking: "Did Gabriel and Autumn end up together?"

Heart aching, I opened my half-finished novel.

In it, Gabriel and Autumn's love was flourishing, overcoming all obstacles.

But in reality, the Gabriel who loved me, cherished me, vowed at 18 to marry only me—he loved another now.

The rest of my life would continue without him.

Choking back tears, I typed the final chapter—

[He returned, but forgot Autumn, finding new love.]

[Gabriel and Autumn ended six months ago, with no future ahead.]

Reading these words, something finally broke inside me, tears falling onto the screen.

With trembling hands, I typed a new synopsis: "The Gabriel who returned isn't mine. Now... I'm going to find him."

After posting, I put on the white dress Gabriel loved most—so he'd recognize me.

Taking an X-acto knife, I drew it slowly but firmly across my wrist—

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