Worth
chapter 11

chapter 11

Yannis suddenly grabbed my hand, insistently trying to give me the ring.

I took it, then threw it into a nearby muddy puddle in front of him.

“Goodbye, Yannis,” I said, looking at him.

“After this rescue mission, let’s never meet again.”

The rescue operation went smoothly, and we managed to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in just eight days. When the support team was leaving, the headquarters held a grand farewell party.

Yannis didn’t come; I heard he was sick.

The relevant authorities organized a few people to visit him in the hospital, while everything else proceeded as usual. As everyone was saying their goodbyes, I suddenly felt a shadow fall over me from behind.

Without guessing, I could tell from the shape of the shadow that it was Ian.

“Aren’t you going to see him?” he asked.

I shook my head. “There’s no need.”

I heard Yannis would be discharged soon, and there were plenty of people concerned about him.

They didn’t need me.

“You’re very decisive,” Ian praised me. “I knew a rose couldn’t belong to just one star.”

He looked up at the sky and sighed softly, “I wonder which of the millions of stars in the sky it will choose?”

Ian was being quite poetic today, which would have confused others.

But unfortunately for him, I was the rose he was referring to.

It wasn’t hard to understand.

“Perhaps the rose doesn’t need stars to bloom brilliantly,” I replied with a smile, then mercilessly reminded him. “Commander, the incident report is due in two days.”

“Shit!”

Ian cursed under his breath, putting his arm around my shoulder like a brother and pulling me back with him. “Don’t think you can make me work overtime alone.”

He said this, but in the end, he was the one frantically working at the computer.

I watched him struggling and smiled.

Then I deleted a new text message on my phone.

“I’ve found the ring. I’ll love you forever.”

Perhaps this is how people are, only realizing what they’ve lost after it’s gone.

But I’m sorry, no one will wait for you forever in the same place.