Chapter 7
“Elizabeth… what are you doing?” Santiago’s voice trembled as he stared at the woman who hat just struck him.
“Look at me! It’s me–Santiago! Don’t you recognize me? How could you… how could you hurt me like this?”
“Are you insane? What’s wrong with you, Elizabeth?”
“Snap out of it! Just look at me, please–don’t you remember who I am?”
Elizabeth stared at him coldly, her expression was blank. She gave a slow, deliberate nod.
“I know who you are,” she replied flatly. “But that doesn’t mean you get to hurt her.”
“From now on, stay away from her. If you go near her again, I won’t spare you.”
Santiago’s face crumpled with disbelief.
“Elizabeth, how can you say that?! You remember me–yet you still treat me this way?”
“Did you forget everything we’ve been through? Everything we endured to be together? How can you turn your back on me like this?”
Elizabeth didn’t answer. She simply stood quietly behind me, two silent tears slipping down her cheeks–wordless proof that they had once truly loved each other.
Eventually, Santiago’s head began to bleed heavily.
Desperate, he begged us to take him to the hospital–or at least call an ambulance.
However, neither of us moved.
We sat calmly on the couch, watching him suffer in silence.
With no other choice, he crawled to his phone and called for help himself, dragging his broken body out the door.
When it was near dawn, the rain began to fall again.
Thunder rolled across the sky, and it triggered Elizabeth’s second death.
She curled up beneath the covers, shaking uncontrollably. Her skin turned a ghastly white, her ips blue.
She looked like a corpse.
Her cries were muffled, barely audible, like the previous me who had once floated beneath a frozen river–helpless, voiceless, and forgotten.
sat by her bedside, listening as the thunder gradually faded into silence, and her cries of agony carried through the long hours of the night.
‘Does it hurt?” I asked softly.
By the time the first light of dawn crept in, Elizabeth had pulled her back from the brink. Her trembling body finally relaxed, though it looked as if half her soul had drained away.
She slowly nodded, her voice was hoarse. “It hurts like hell…”
Then she laughed bitterly through her tears. “If I could really die… that might actually be a relief.” Elizabeth had once been oblivious to what Santiago had done–how he tricked me for three
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years, how he stole my organs to save her.
But now she knew. She had inherited my immortality–and along with it was the unbearable burden of my pain.
She fell to her knees and begged.
“I don’t want this,” she sobbed.
“My life has already been hard enough. I don’t want to go on like this! Please… please just give me a quick death. Tell me how to end this immortality!”
I shook my head. “There is no way out.”
As I raised my eyes again, I saw Santiago standing in the doorway, frozen–listening to everything.
So I turned to Elizabeth and asked, “Isn’t immortality what you wanted? You can be with Santiago forever now. He did all of this for you.”
‘I don’t want him anymore!” Elizabeth cried.
She collapsed against my legs, sobbing. “Please… take him back. I don’t want him! Just make i stop! Please, I’ll do anything, just don’t make me stay with him!”
‘I hate him! It’s all his fault! He brought this pain into my life!”
‘If he hadn’t done all this behind my back, if he had asked me first–If he had given me a choic -None of this would’ve happened!”
‘He claimed to love me. Promised to spend the rest of his life with me. But he never even asked what I wanted. Now I’m the one paying the price.”
‘Please,” she pleaded, her voice raw and broken.
‘I know you hate him. But don’t punish me because of him. Tell me how to break the curse of mmortality… and I’ll leave him forever.”
She collapsed again, wailing, her desperation pouring from every word.
But I only had one answer–and it didn’t change.
Santiago stepped forward at last, his face pale, body stiff. Tears streamed silently down his cheeks as he finally crossed the threshold.
