Eleven Years All to the Wrong Man novel Chapter 70

Only when the person beside her began to breathe steadily did Emma slowly open her eyes. She hadn’t slept at all. For as long as Evan had been on the phone outside, she had been lying in the room with her eyes wide open.

Listening to the sound of his deep sleep, she slowly turned her head to look at him. She shifted to face him, reached out her hand, and gently caressed his cheek.

“Evan, how do you expect me to forgive you? I’ve given you so many chances, and you’ve wasted every single one. So how can you be… so pathetic?”

Emma pulled her hand back, her heart a wasteland of sorrow.

Evan slept restlessly that night. In the early hours of the morning, he dreamt of a crying Melissa, whose face suddenly morphed into Emma’s. Emma was weeping inconsolably as she boarded a long-distance bus heading to some unknown, faraway place. She waved at him through tears, telling him she never wanted to see him again. Panic seized him. He cried out, chasing after the bus, begging Emma to get off, but she just sat there as the bus drove further and further away…

It’s a dream almost everyone has had—watching a loved one leave, powerless to stop them, and waking up in a cold sweat both in the dream and in reality.

Evan was no different. When he jolted awake, his pillow was soaked through.

He turned his head, and when his hand found Emma’s warm body, his frantically beating heart began to slow. He turned over and pulled her from the edge of the bed into his arms.

“Emma…”

Evan held her tight, burying his face in her hair and kissing it. Only when he felt the warmth of her body did a sense of security finally return to him.

It was only around five in the morning. Woken from a deep sleep, Emma stirred uncomfortably and tried to squirm away, but Evan was holding her so tightly that her struggles were useless.

He pressed his entire body against hers, his voice like a pleading child’s. “Emma, I just had a terrible dream. I dreamed you were leaving me. No matter how much I begged, you wouldn’t turn back or even look at me. I was so scared. I was really, really scared…”

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