Orphaned Without Refuge Chapter 4

After being tormented at the hospital for a long time, Clara finally let me go.

I returned home exhausted.

Having no energy to cook, I collapsed directly onto the bed and fell asleep.

Too many terrible things had happened recently, so I slept very restlessly.

Just as I dreamed I was about to be swept into the ocean by waves, I suddenly saw 21-year-old Clara on the beach.

"Levi!"

I watched her run toward me desperately, shouting my name while pulling me from the sea.

I gazed longingly at Clara's face—it had been so long since I'd seen her worry about me like this.

Clara used to care about and depend on me, but after she met Mason, everything changed.

After Mason appeared, Clara stopped calling me "Levi" affectionately, and rarely sought me out.

Although we eventually married, I knew the Clara who loved me had long disappeared.

I held onto Clara partly to repay her father's kindness, and partly because I still harbored hope about her.

I thought my decades of friendship with Clara could triumph over Mason's brief appearance.

But facts proved childhood friends can't compete with love at first sight.

While I was immersed in my dream, a phone call woke me.