IMDD CHAPTER 270 (Patreon)

Gage just stared at Eva in disbelief. He looked as though he had been struck hard by something he had never expected, struggling even to formulate a response.

Utterly glad to see such a reaction, Eva moved her hands from his face. She held his hands tight as she gazed back at him. She knew that this was finally it. The chance she’d been waiting for so she could tell him everything.

“The first time we met was in that same bar,” Eva started telling him everything since the beginning. Since the very first day they met. She told him about the contract he proposed to her and that she signed it immediately. She told him how they lived together, worked together, went through troubles together. She told him how she slowly fell in love with him until she decided to finally give him her answer. But because of someone’s interference, she didn’t make it.

“Your wing… you lost it because of me, Gage.” Eva’s eyes watered no matter how she tried not to cry. Recounting everything, the moments they shared together, and all those heartaches and pain… it was impossible for her not to be overcome with emotion.

Taking a deep breath, she continued. “You… you’ve torn it yourself. You sacrificed it to save me –”

But before she could finish, Gage’s eyes underwent a startling transformation, turning a vivid blood red. He groaned, clutching his head in apparent agony, as if a sudden extreme headache had gripped him.

“Gage?” Eva called out, worried. The change in him was alarming, and the physical reaction suggested that her words definitely triggered something.

Eva watched with mounting alarm as Gage's pain seemed to intensify. His hands covered his eyes, the heels of his palms pressing in as his groans grew louder. He stepped back from her. She followed him, reaching out to offer support, but he staggered back until his back met the wall.

He looked like he was in so much pain.

Something dark and ominous seemed to be seeping from within him.

Eva felt an overwhelming pressure in the air, a sensation that threatened to suffocate her. Her instincts screamed at her to retreat, yet her heart wouldn't allow it. Instead, she lunged forward and wrapped her arms around him in a tight embrace. "It’s okay, Gage… I’m here… I’m here, love," she whispered, her voice gentle but strained, as if fighting through the oppressive energy surrounding them.

Then, as abruptly as it had begun, everything seemed to suddenly come to a halt. Gage's groans halted, the suffocating energy dissipated, and his body relaxed against hers.

Eva cautiously pulled back from the embrace.

What she saw took her breath away. A single tear rolled down Gage's cheek as he gazed at her. His eyes, once dark and stormy, were now brimming with a multitude of emotions, so intense and raw that they cut straight to her soul.

The sight unleashed the floodgates of her own emotions, and just like that, tears spilled down her cheeks uncontrollably.

He didn’t need to say a word. She knew just by looking at him… god… she couldn’t believe it but… her Gage… he’s back…

The man she loved, her Gage, had finally, fully returned to her.

"Gage..." she whispered, her voice quivering as she reached out to touch his cheek. Her fingers trembled slightly, but she managed to gently wipe away the tears that streamed down from his right eye. "You finally remember… right?" she asked, her voice shaky with hope and anticipation. She needed confirmation, to hear the words that would dissolve the last remnants of doubt.

The emotions swirling in Gage's eyes were a kaleidoscope of feeling, each one raw and achingly intense, conveying a depth of emotion that words could never fully capture.

He seized her and held her tight in his embrace. The way he wrapped his arms around her, the way his body trembled… Eva sobbed, hugging him back with equal fervor, pouring all her love and relief into the embrace.

“Eva…” he finally spoke as they both slid onto the floor. As if he too had lost all of his strength. “Oh, Eva…” His words were a whisper, a tender utterance that encapsulated so much – recognition, love, remorse, and utter relief.

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