Chapter 79

CRYSTAL POV

The world's most unforgettable and indelible moments of history were always tragic.

Plain and simple.

The world always tends to forget all the good things happening on it but rushes to note down the gut-wrenching happenstances.

Hell, the night I broke up with Duncan lived rent-free in my head. Any minute of the day, I just had to close my eyes and see the hurt in his eyes as I handed him his heart, shattered and broken on the platter, while wrestling to keep composure at the expense of my own heart.

Watching my parents’ house burn to nothing but cinders and ash had been dismayingly harrowing, knowing that the only tangible memory I had of them was gone, turned into the cradle of nothing was even worst. But that look on Duncan’s face as he looked at me with eyes snapped wide, shock, pain, all the horrible emotions dancing vividly in his eyes… the confusion that has clung onto him, sitting on his tongue as he tried to talk; asking how it all went wrong,

That always had m