He rushed to the embassy, but they refused to release any information about me.
After all, Liam wasn’t someone important to me. Why should a stranger be allowed to know where I was?}
Liam paused, deep in thought, before finally coming up with something. “Boss, I’m her boss. She was sent abroad by our company. We have the right to know about her whereabouts.“}
“Is that so?” the embassy officer responded coldly. “As far as I know, her resignation process was completed.”
Liam was struck like a bolt of lightning. His voice trembled with hysteria as he muttered, “How is this possible? Why didn’t she tell me she resigned? Why didn’t anyone inform me?”
I had been nothing more than an intern. Since he had avoided our relationship, I followed the proper process and left quietly without a
word.
The truth was, he had never cared about me. To him, I was just another disposable thing, easily cast aside.
At long last, it seemed he had come to understand the weight of my words when I told him, “The debt is paid. We’ll never meet again.“> Liam sat outside the embassy like a broken shell of a man, his soul seemingly lost. From dawn to dusk, he remained there, unmoving, as if frozen in time. Eventually, the embassy could no longer ignore him and came out to speak with him. “Miss Anya is severely injured and has already been sent back to the country. She’s receiving treatment at a military hospital. We cannot provide any more details.“}
Without hesitation, Liam rushed back home, traveling through the night.
But in the city where I had spent four years, he couldn’t find a single trace of me.§
Despite the countless times I had visited his villa, there wasn’t a single trace of me left behind, not even a strand of hair. He never allowed me to stay overnight, keeping his home untouched by any lasting reminders of me.
Over the course of four years, there wasn’t a single photograph of us together. If he ever wanted to see me, he had to dig through old company team–building photos, searching for the few snapshots where male colleagues had managed to capture me from afar.”
He even went to my school, but I kept a low profile. The rumors of me dating wealthy men had left me isolated, with hardly any friends to speak of.
And then, ! vanished. Completely. No one looked for me. No one cared.§
Yet somehow, Liam found my mentor.}
My mentor regarded him with disdain. “Anya really has terrible taste,” they muttered under their breath.
Despite the cold reception, Liam showed patience I had never seen before, relentlessly pestering my mentor until the man found himself reluctantly ensnared in Liam’s persistence.”