The Year I Was the Other Woman To Myself novel Chapter 455

Their destination was the garden, Dust Dancing in Light, the sea of flowers Donald had planted for Edith.

He had once torn it all out, but now it was filled with flowers again. Because of the cold weather, several plastic greenhouses had been erected over them.

Restoring it to this state must have taken Donald a great deal of time and effort.

“Even though she’s gone, I believe she can see this from heaven,” Donald said, his eyes filled with a heavy sorrow as he looked at the garden.

“My mother was very happy during the years she was married to my father,” she said after a long silence.

“That’s good to hear.” Donald’s eyes welled up.

“She never once thought about seeing you before she passed away.”

“I know.”

“So you should let her go, too.”

It was her way of offering him counsel. Their time had passed, a permanent, unbridgeable gap between life and death. Since that was the case, they should both let go. The living didn’t need to torture themselves for the dead.

“Your mother will always hold the most important place in my heart.”

“Why do you insist on doing this to yourself?”

“It’s not something I can control.”

Penelope sighed. She wanted to be clear with Donald. Although they were father and daughter by blood, there was no real bond between them. It would be better for both of them to step out of each other’s lives and not disturb one another.

But just as she was about to speak, Donald looked at her with a nervous expression. “Penelope, could you… call me Dad just once?”

“I’m sorry, I…”

“It’s alright. There’s no rush. I can wait. I believe that one day, you’ll accept me.”

Seeing his cautious, hopeful expression, she couldn’t bring herself to say the words.

Just then, her phone rang. It was Carson.

She hadn’t been back to the Johnson family home in a long time, nor had she spoken to Carson. How could she not resent him, be angry with him? To pull his family out of their grief, he had orchestrated her marriage to Theodore, forcing them to confront a tangled past after they had already fallen in love.

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