Abandoned by All I Took It All Back novel Chapter 49

But as soon as that thought crossed his mind, Julius seemed to remember something.

He stood up and opened the walk-in closet.

The dim light illuminated his face, which was slowly growing colder. He stared at the closet, which now contained only his clothes. Janina's clothes, bags, shoes, and jewelry were all gone.

In the bathroom, only his toiletries remained.

The massive villa looked as if a woman had never lived there at all.

She had erased every trace of her existence here.

Panic suddenly gripped Julius's heart. He had grown accustomed to having Janina at home. Every time he came back, she would be there, chirping around him like a little sparrow. Although it was sometimes noisy, having such a charming wife had brought a lot of joy to his life.

She loved him so much, how could she bear to leave!

It suddenly dawned on Julius that this time, Janina wasn't playing hard to get, nor was this about jealousy. She had truly left this home, and she had truly left him.

Julius stood on the living room balcony. He still hadn't turned on the lights, his black clothes blending into the night.

He pulled a cigarette from its pack, placed it between his lips, and cupped his hands around the flame of a lighter.

Smoke rose, quickly scattered by the night wind. He took a deep drag, and the thick taste of nicotine made him cough.

The cigarette burned down to the filter. It wasn't until he felt the burning pain on his index finger that he finally realized something vital was being stripped from his life.

*

The autumn night carried a slight chill.

It was already the early hours of the morning.

Janina didn't know how long she had been walking. The skin on her toes was raw and blistered, throbbing with pain.

She felt dog-tired, but she didn't dare stop. She hadn't eaten dinner, and combined with her anxiety, she looked terrible.

She felt like she could collapse at any moment.

She kept circling back to the same spot on this road. After walking for what felt like hours, she still hadn't found an intersection.

And the turns she took just led her back to the end of the same road.

Although the road was a bit creepy, it was wide and paved. It made no sense for it to have no end.

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