Sage felt her heart skip a beat. Like something pressed on her chest.
She did not know why she felt this way. They have been separated for so long but how was it that
whenever they were in touch, she would feel a certain way.
It was something that she could not even control. Sage ended the call abruptly, without giving him an
answer. She did not know what to say.
***
Jace felt his heart drop when Sage ended the call. He knew that he crossed the line yet again. Just
when Sage reached out first to him, he messed up the entire thing. Jace blamed himself for not
keeping his cool. He was frustrated at himself for crossing the line.
Jace started hitting his head annoyedly. And this startled Zayne. “Sir… sir, please calm down. Let’s talk
it out, hmm? Stop hitting your head like that. Your head didn’t do anything wrong.” Jace just underwent
cranial surgery and Jace should not be attacking his head. Ignoring Zayne, Jace grabbed his phone,
inhaled sharply, and sent a message to Sage: (I don’t mean anything else. I hope you have a good time
at Yathein. Don’t worry about anything else here, you still have me.)
***
Sage tried the cookies that she baked with Tim when she received Jace’s message. She opened the
message and Tim caught a glimpse at the content. Sage did not reply to his message and simply put
away her phone. Tim took a sip of the tea that Sage prepared and said, “You’re still keeping in touch
with Jace Yuriel?”
Sage tried to read Tim’s expression. She suddenly felt guilty. “No. I deleted his contact back then and I
only added him back today.” Tim did not ask why she added him again but instead, he asked bluntly,
“Do you still love him?
Sage was flustered by Tim’s straightforwardness.
She was speechless yet at the same time she did not want to avoid his question. “It’s not that. Maybe
I’m just too used to him. I still need more time to adjust.”
Sage was always a decisive person. It was different when it came to love. Like a seedling, she allowed
Jace to grow and extend his roots and veins all over her body until he was deeply rooted in her soul
and her life.
She thought that she could cut them down one by one, but the roots and veins were all so deeply
rooted in her that she could only remove them slowly, day by day.
And it would hurt every time she tried to cut them down, but she always held on to the belief that time
would heal all wounds.
Tim understood the way she felt and that was why he did not say anything.
“Feelings aren’t something that we can control. What comes will come, and what goes will end up
leaving in the end.” Sage suddenly chuckled, “You sound like an old philosopher.” Tim patted her head
and said, “All I hope is for you to follow your heart and I don’t even want you to lower yourself for
anything or anyone, okay?”
“I know. Who dares to wrong me when I have you and the rest of my brothers?”
She smiled and drank a sip of tea. “Oh, right,” Sage was suddenly reminded of something, “I’ve sent a
gift to Iceman, has he received it?”
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