Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1570

Chapter 1570 - Calling Card (Part 2)

Kamila always ended up going back to Belius when she knew that the Camellia was about to die. She went there hoping that she would endure watching its final moments and find the strength to move on, but she would just renew the imprint and start over.

Looking at the withered flower was already hard, doing it with all the pressure from three years of memories from her apartment weighing on her was nigh-impossible.

'At first, everyone but me thought that this cheap-ass thing was a betrothal gift.' Kamila thought while picking up the badly hammered green painted scrap metal that comprised the Camellia's stem.

'Then, while others forgot about it, I started to hope that Lith would give me another. A perennial Camellia as a proper betrothal gift. Yet I knew that it would never happen until we managed to bring out all the unspoken words left between us.

'Back then, I thought that saying "I love you" was the hardest thing in the world, yet hearing about Solus was much worse. Did he ever really feel something for me or was it just another lie?'

Her mind spun until she became dizzy from remembering both Lith's words before she left the tower and Jirni's words about how similar the choice that Kamila had to make was to Orion's.

Jirni's parallel between her own situation with her husband and Kamila's with Lith had struck a nerve, planting the seed of doubt in the ear of her fellow Constable. Kamila had mulled over the words of her mentor and of her ex-boyfriend so much that she had trouble sleeping.

'Gods, why is this so hard?' She clenched the green stem with all the strength she could muster. 'All I have to do is to either stand still for the next few minutes or just leave the apartment and come back later to pick up my clothes.'

Yet she didn't move from the spot, her hands refused to let go of the Camellia and close it inside the chest until it was too late.

Kamila knew that the moment she let the flower's enchantment die, everything would be over for good. There would be no second chances, no miracle forgiveness, just feelings turning into memories.

It would be the final step before moving on with her life, yet she still had too many doubts that kept her from making up her mind.

'I can't stop thinking about Jirni's words.' Kamila thought. 'She is right about Lith. He didn't lie to me to hurt me, only to protect me, just like Jirni did with Orion. If Lith had told me about Solus, I would have never given him a chance and both our lives would be ruined now.

'Yet his relationship with Solus is so unique that I don't know what to believe. I am certain that he was honest with me when he said there's nothing romantic between them.

'On the other hand, I could also see from their memories how close they are and how the difference between love and friendship is paper thin.'

Another petal of the Camellia fell off, leaving just three of them.

'I fought too hard and too long to keep my relationship with Lith. I'm not going to act like a coward now and let everything slip out of my hands out of inertia. The last time we met, he told me that if I wanted to learn the truth about him and Solus, I had to call the Firstborn Banshee and ask her about their encounter. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}