Too Late To Say I Love You novel Chapter 41

Jared traveled day and night after receiving the news so as to meet Gwen. Zach did not stop him from meeting her. “She’s in the bedroom. Go in and tell her everything you want to say because the doctor said that she might not make it through the night.”

“Gwen, Gwen…” Jared cried as he staggered into the room.

“Gwen, Gwen.”

Gwen had already dozed off, but she opened her eyes after she heard the voice, which she had not heard for a long time. “Jared, why are you here?”

Jared leaned on her bed as he cried bitterly. “Gwen…”

Gwen tried hard to open her eyes as she was weary. When she looked at him, old memories flashed in front of her eyes.

When she was 12 years old, her dad passed away after saving Grandpa Crawford. Hence, Gwen met Jared, and she was taken into the Crawford family by Grandpa Crawford, where she began learning and growing with Jared.

Gwen’s first awakening of love was when she was 15 years old. She had a crush on Jared, who was three years older than her, and she was unable to withdraw herself from him because her love for him grew crazily.

Her wish was fulfilled the moment she married him when she was 25 years old. Gwen thought it would be the beginning of their happiness, but she never thought it would actually be the start of their journey toward a dead-end. Jared hurt her and tortured her so much that she was forced to end their relationship through her death.

When Gwen was 30 years old, she met Jared again with a different identity. He protected her by risking his life, and the incidents in their past were canceled once for all. As a result, they were separated worlds apart.

Now, Gwen was 46 years old while Jared was 49 years old. They were both nearly half a century old, but they were parted in life and separated by death this time.

Jared left traces of thick and heavy colors in Gwen’s life throughout her youth and declining years.

Gwen asked him softly. “Hey, Jared, why have you never asked the reason I fell in love with you back then?”

Indeed, Jared had always forgotten to ask her about it. He held her hand and asked with tears in his eyes, “Why did you fall in love with a b*stard like me back then?”

“You may have forgotten, but you saved me when I was 15 years old. I was being bullied on my way back home, but you beat up the bullies and said that you’ll take me under your wing from then on… It was then when I started liking you.”

Back then, “A Chinese Odyssey” was incredibly famous, where there was a classic line from Fairy Zixia: “The man of my dreams is the greatest hero in the world, and he’ll tread on a seven-colored cloud to marry me one day.” Gwen was muddled as she figured out what love was while Jared became her hero, thus her love for him was unstoppable.

Gwen continued softly, “I used to regret loving you, and I even thought I’d rather not meet you in my life if I could go back in time. But recently, I’ve been thinking there’s nothing much to regret because I chose that path myself.

“Everything has a cause and effect. Without those causes and effects, I wouldn’t have had Egret, I wouldn’t have met Zach, I wouldn’t have given birth to Lou, and I wouldn’t have lived 15 happy years.”

Jared shook his head. “But I regret it, I regret it. If this is how it ends, I would rather you’ve never met me before, and you’ll live a peaceful life instead of leaving this early…”

She was only 45 years old, and she had not truly enjoyed life, so how could she leave like that?