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    Psychological instability often gets worse with emotional triggers. Freya found merit in his logic but asked, “What if I find him and he asks me again whether I want to be with him—what should I say?” Turning him down outright would just be another blow. It could send him straight into another episode.


    “He listens to you,” Ellis replied quickly, offering a measured suggestion. “If he asks again, let him down gently—but don’t shut the doorpletely. Give him just enough hope to hold on until Lawrence returns.”


    “Isn’t that a bit… cruel?” Freya’s gut twisted at the thought. Lawrence’s return didn’t guarantee anything. Kristian’s memory might never return. And if it didn’t, his current personality wouldn’t just disappear. A promise is a promise. If she gave him her word and he met all her conditions, she’d have no excuse not to stay with him.


    “For now, just keep things stable,” Ellis advised. “I’ll reach out to my associates, see if anyone has any solutions.”


    “Alright,” Freya agreed after a pause.


    Once Ellis stepped away to make those calls, Freya rang Kristian again. She reminded herself not to judge him by who he used to be. The man he was now had shifted—drastically. Even though his mental faculties had recovered, emotionally, he acted like a petnt child nursing a broken heart.


    When she called, Kristian was in the shower, and he missed all three of her calls. Freya didn’t push it.


    After a moment of thought, she sent him a message instead. “Call me back when you see this. You didn’t eat much tonight—have Gerard make you something, okay? Don’t go to bed hungry. We’ll talk when you’re ready.”


    After stepping out of the shower, Kristian spotted her message. Seeing the three missed calls followed by her gentle reminder, most of the bitterness in his chest began to quietly melt away.


    Kristian ignored the message and declined to return the call. Instead, he turned to Gerard with a contemtive expression. “If you had a fight with your girlfriend and she became upset, would you try to make things right?”


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    “I don’t have a girlfriend right now,” Gerard admitted with straightforward honesty.


    “Hypothetically speaking,” Kristian rified, his voice tinged with a subtle tension.


    “Well, it depends on who’s at fault. If I made a mistake, I’d definitely try to make amends. But if it’s her fault, I might reluctantly give her a chance to fix things.”


    “And what if she refuses to answer your calls or respond to your messages, shutting down any chance of reconciliation?” Kristian asked, his eyes revealing a deeper concern.


    Gerard took this as casual conversation, unaware of its true significance. “Then I’d go to see her in person and talk it through. When things go wrong, face-to-face is always better than texts. You can’t truly understand someone’s feelings through a screen.”


    “So, you’re saying that when someone really cares, they’ll find another way tomunicate if the usual methods don’t work?” Kristian’s thoughts seemedplex, and Gerard couldn’t quite grasp his deeper meaning.


    Gerard nodded slightly. “Yeah, pretty much.”


    “Alright.” Kristian seemed unwilling to continue the conversation. “You should head to bed.”


    Gerard blinked, confusion overtaking him. There was something about Kristian’s behavior that seemed off, though he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was wrong.


    “Mr. Shaw,” he ventured cautiously, walking on verbal thin ice.


    Kristian’s intense gaze lifted slightly. His strikingly handsome face could cause anyone’s heart to race for a moment. “What is it?”


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