CHAPTER 24

  Dion was alive. He didn't die. There was a possibility that he would come back. And if he did, what would happen? What would I do? Would I come back to him and leave Gin behind, forget everything that happened to us?

  "Now that you know that my cousin is alive, what will you do?"

  "What will happen to your relationship with Gin?"

  "If ever my cousin comes back, what would you do? Would you leave Gin and come back to Dion?"

  "Who would you choose?"

  "Your new lover or your first love?"

  A heavy sigh escaped from my lungs when Francis' words came back to me and repeated in my head again and again as if an old tape from my great, great, grand mother's old belongings. Now that he said that Dion was alive, everything just got complicated. I thought knowing and having an assurance that my first love was alive, I would be able to sleep peacefully at night, but I was wrong.

  Everything just got