Goodbye Love, Welcome the New Me!

I didn't cry or make a fuss. As a matter of fact, I no longer had the energy to do anything else.

Just setting up seventeen tombstones halfway up the mountain was enough to break my heart.

I stood in the cemetery for a long time and turned to leave. Before I walked far, I suddenly saw Jason. Erin was behind him.

"Jason. Do you think I was the reason why Danny died?"

Erin sounded really sad. She had an urn in her arms.

"How could it be your fault? Don't beat yourself up. The priest said that if we give Danny a solemn funeral, he will have a good life in the next life."

If I hadn't been so familiar with that voice, I would have thought I was hallucinating.

Could a cold-blooded person like Jason also believe in God?

But all that had nothing to do with me anymore.

I tried to avoid them, but Jason had already seen me.

"Why are you here?"

He was clearly questioning me. I knew he thought I was following him.

It was really unexpected for me to meet them in a place like a cemetery. But then I thought about how much they loved that dog the other day. So, it made sense that they wanted to bury the dog in an expensive cemetery.

"I was just in the neighborhood."

I responded indifferently, not wanting to waste time talking to them.

I stood up to leave, but Jason held my hand.

The moment his warm, dry palm touched my hand, I felt like throwing up. So, I immediately shook it off.

"Don't touch me!"

Jason didn't expect me to react so strongly. He was stunned for a moment, frowning.

"Grace Connor! What's your problem?!"

My eyes turned red. As soon as I saw Jason's face, all I could hear was the buzzing sounds of hospital equipment signaling death.

"Go away! I don't wanna see you."

Erin held the urn and said in a self-blaming tone.

"Grace, are you still angry about the other day? Danny and I had in a car accident that day, and it was urgent. So, Jason helped us and failed to deliver the drug to you. Please blame me for it, but don't be angry with him."

What a pretentious woman she was.

I laughed out loud,

"Yes, your minor collision with the electric bike is indeed a car accident. The situation was urgent. In comparison, my entire family of 17 in the intensive care unit was nothing."

"Jason is my fiancé, so it's only natural that I'm angry with him. Who are you? Why are you taking the blame for him?"

"You have no relationship with him, so stop flattering yourself!"

I almost yelled in the end.

Seventeen people died!

And the drug was already in Ashton...

They were almost saved, almost.

If it hadn't been for Erin and her dog, Jason wouldn't have broken his promise.

My family wouldn't have died.

Erin wept, tears streaming down her face.

"I'm sorry, Grace. I didn't want it to become like this."

Seeing Erin so sorrowful, Jason made her stand behind him as usual, as if I had bullied her.

"Grace, do you really have to be so aggressive?"

I sneered,

"Of course not. So I'm leaving."

In the past, I would argue with Jason and tell him how Erin sowed discord between us.

He would say that I was targeting Erin and told me not to be so hostile to the women around him. At that time, I just thought he was just being straight, and I would change him one day.

But now I wanted to give up. I didn't even have the mood to talk to Jason.

I left with no hesitation. Jason looked at my back with a strange expression.

That was the first time I hadn't made a scene before him and Erin.

Jason, for the first time ever, left Erin and chased after me.

"How are you doing lately? Did you bring the drug that day?"

It had been a week since my family passed away. If Jason had contacted me or cared about my family's condition, he wouldn't have asked me that now.

But no, he was still being condescending.

I looked at him and asked in a serious tone,

"Jason, do you really love me?"

Jason looked away and said nothing.

The answer was obvious.

I tried to feel my heart, and there was no sadness.

I understood that I no longer loved Jason.

The ten years I spent around him were all in the past. I could finally calmly tell people about it after getting drunk.

"Let's cancel our engagement, Jason."

Refusing to waste any time on him, I just left with these words.

Jason immediately grabbed my hand, and his tone sounded shocked,

"What did you say?"

Without answering him, I just gave him a cold shoulder.

Jason panicked.

"I'm sorry I ignored you last time. From now on, I will send you to the hospital the minute I get the drug. Just stop making a scene here, okay?"

He probably thought that I was just upset about the last time, so he humbled himself for the first time to coax me.

In the past, even ten days ago, I would have been glad to hear that and even consoled him that I was also wrong to be angry with him.

But at that moment, all my hopes were gone, as were seventeen families of mine.