goodbye my sweetheart

Go out there and tell her, pursue her instead of sitting here peeping at her like a pervert. "

"I don't dare, Damon, you don't know how scared I am of her—"

"What are you afraid of? Even Klaus may not be your opponent now, let alone Katherine today."

Stefan laughed nervously, but Damon didn't understand.

Damon doesn't understand Stefan's fragility, let alone Katherine's strength.

There are too many things about Katherine worthy of Stefan's fear:

He was afraid that she would run away as soon as she saw his face;

He was afraid that she would tell lies to him;

He was also afraid that she would not even lie to him;

He is afraid that she will give him hope;

He was afraid that she would disappoint him;

He was afraid that she would break his heart;

He was afraid that she would still hate him;

He was afraid that she wouldn't even hate her anymore;

He was afraid that she would still miss others;

What he fears most is that she will never love him again...

As long as Stefan's heart still loves Katherine, she will always be a peerless weapon for him, capable of hurting him to pieces every second.

"I can't believe that you used Carol to protest." Damon couldn't help it anymore when he saw Carol enter.

"That's not a demonstration..."

"You send a more beautiful woman to send her to do this and that. Excuse me, isn't that a demonstration?!"

Stefan lowered his eyes, thinking of Katherine's diary.

He thought to himself: I just want to tell Katherine through actions: Stefan's love for her is not because of his narrow vision and shallow experience. He is no longer that little country bumpkin. A more beautiful and better woman, but Stefan's heart, his heart still loves Katherine.

Damon looked at Stefan with burning eyes and strange face, and muttered, "What do you want to do next? Put her in handcuffs?"

"If you can keep her by my side, it would be a good way." Stefan smiled, and drew circles on the wine glass with his fingers, "It's just that what I use to lock her is not handcuffs but marriage. "

"What? You know she won't want to marry you!"

"Of course I know that, but we'll get married anyway, as she said before: we'll always be together in the end."

"What are you going to do? Force her? Hypnotize her?"

"You don't need to worry about that." Damon's over-focus always annoyed him.

"You've gone crazy!"

Stefan looked at Damon with a slight smile, "It seems that you don't agree with my approach, this is the best, I don't have to invite you to my wedding."

"What?" Damon was angry, showing a ferocious face, his eyes were red, and knocked Stefan to the ground with a punch, "You are really my good brother! You didn't invite me to your wedding!"

Stefan turned back and grabbed Damon's neck, "Forgive me, Damon, I can't risk distracting Katherine. Damon, you don't know how important you are to her! Her diary on the way to escape, almost Every article starts with me and ends with you, I can't take this risk. In short, you can't appear in her sight. I will send someone to send the wedding video to you!"

Damon was nearly suffocated by him, his eyes widening, feeling for the first time Stefan's incredible determination and strength.

When Damon forced his way into Stefan and Elena's relationship, Stefan just sulked, and even when Damon kissed Elena later, Stefan just punched him.And now Stefan, just imagining Damon taking Katherine, he was already so angry that he couldn't control his strength.

"Please, Damon, obey me this time and don't come out to make trouble again, or I will really kill you!" He let go of his hand and helped Damon who was dying, "Please understand me, I really can't Endure life without Katherine!"

■80■

These days Katherine has been busy sewing the wedding dress, and when she got home, she was so tired that she fell on the bed and couldn't get up, so she didn't have the energy and time to look at Ethan through the binoculars.

On the day of finishing the wedding dress, Katherine went straight home.

She opened the window, lowered the curtains, took out the binoculars and set them up on the windowsill, waiting for Ethan to appear.

In fact, what Ethan said was right. Stefan destroyed her belief in love. She no longer believed that she could get love by herself.

For her, it seems that she can't touch all the beautiful people, things, and things in this world. Only with a distance can they be safe and never get the chance to hurt each other.

She looked at her watch, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, usually at this time, Ethan had just finished exercising and would take a shower and stand on the balcony to cool off.

But tonight, there was no one on the balcony.

Katherine didn't wait for him to show up, so she went to bed unhappy.

The next day, the third day... Ethan still didn't show up.

Katherine was starting to feel a little uneasy.

As far as she knows, Ethan is a person with a very regular life. He has dinner at 06:30, works out at 08:30, takes a shower at [-]:[-], and then stands on the balcony for an hour, drinking a bottle of beer while blowing the wind, and pouring water Watering the flowers...he doesn't change his habits for no reason.

She thought about calling him, but the wiped Ethan would just treat her like a strange stranger.

On the fourth day, she decided to go to Ethan's apartment to find him in person.

Along the way, she was in an uneasy mood, thinking about how to make a specific excuse for "knocking on the wrong door". She just wanted to take a look and see that he was safe.

But all the rehearsals in her mind were in vain, and she was greeted by Ethan's empty room.He seemed to be leaving in a hurry, he didn't even close the door, the room was a bit messy, and he didn't even have time to take off the schedule hanging on the wall and take it away.

The less she saw him, the more she wanted to see him.

This thought is like a ladle floating in a water tank, the more you push it down, the harder it will rise up.

She peeled off a stack of lists from his calendar, including itinerary plans, shopping lists, invitations, and part-time job advertisements... She looked at them one by one, trying to find clues.

Her eyes fell on an invitation letter, "XXXXXX Rugby Sponsor New Year Reception".There's a deep crease on it that Ethan seems to be marking with.

Katherine put the invitation in her coat pocket and decided to try her luck at the reception to see if she could find Ethan.

She sighed and looked around the empty room.

She walked to the balcony and walked to the place where Ethan used to stand. She leaned on the railing like him and closed her eyes. It turned out that standing here and blowing the wind was so pleasant.

But at this moment, Stefan was in Katherine's room, using her binoculars to look at her, who looked melancholy and tender at the moment.

He looked at the invitation letter protruding from the corner of her coat pocket, and he knew: she was hooked.

Yes, Stefan bought the building out of nowhere to gain access to Katherine's room at will, in fact, he was beside her every night watching her fall asleep, his hand in hers Hand, his forehead next to hers, he repeatedly entered her dreams and her memories.

Because he wants to give her a gift, he wants to find all clues that can be used in her memories and dreams.

In her mind, he saw the past of more than 100 years ago, he was shot to save her, he saw her kiss fall on his cold body, he saw her cry, and said with true emotion, "Stefan , I love you, we will still be together, trust me."

Yes, we will be together.

■81■

They are always separated.

He's either hiding in an unassuming old car, in Taylor's body, or behind a one-way mirror.

Today, at the football sponsor's New Year reception, he was finally determined to face her as originally planned.

Stefan looked at her for a moment, and this time, what separated them was not a single-sided glass, but a crowd.

He watched her walk in.

She was wearing a silver-gray V-neck tight-fitting evening dress, without any jewelry, and without makeup. Her hair was still tied into a lazy and sexy bun with the half chopsticks. She only wore a little lipstick, deliberately She kept a low profile, as if she didn't want to attract anyone's attention, she subconsciously stood against the wall as soon as she entered the door, this is a typical defensive posture, as if the wall is the only reliable thing, her eyes quickly fell on the various exits , seems to be determining the location of the emergency exit.

Stefan's heart seemed to be cut, he had never really understood Katherine like this moment.

In the past, all he saw were illusions. He used to think that Katherine was the kind of person who must stand in the middle no matter where she was, must be the focus, and must be the one who attracted everyone's attention.

He was wrong.