Fleeing Overseas to Escape My Ex

After being given a second chance at life, I made a deliberate choice to avoid Nevaeh Charlton entirely.

When she enrolled at Brookshire University, I left the country and went to study in Hollandia instead. When she followed me there, I disappeared again—this time, chasing war zones across continents as a field reporter, always just out of her reach.

Years passed.

In the end, I returned home with the woman I loved, ready to marry her and begin a new life together.

On the day of our wedding, Nevaeh was stopped outside the venue. Her eyes were rimmed red, and her voice was unsteady.

"Why don't you love me anymore?"

Chester's POV

Nevaeh Charlton and I had grown up together. Our families were of the same social status, and everyone said we were the perfect childhood sweethearts.

That was, until senior year.

A transfer student named Edward Rogers showed up in our class. He carried himself with effortless grace, distant and untouchable, like he did not belong to the same world as the rest of us. Nevaeh fell for him almost instantly.

Three months later, she finally said it.

"Chester, let's call off the engagement. I like Edward. I only want to be with him."

I could not accept it, and I made a scene so big that everyone found out about it.

The fallout was brutal.

Nevaeh was locked up at home under strict watch. As for Edward, my family pulled some strings and had him transferred to a better school in another city.

A month later, Edward took his own life after being unable to endure the bullying at school.

When Nevaeh heard the news, something inside her seemed to die along with him.

She stopped talking and refused to eat.

Out of both love and guilt, I dropped everything to stay by her side. Every day, I spoke to her in soft, careful words. I fed her bite by bite, begging her to keep living.

Two months later, after planning everything down to the smallest detail, I took her to the snowy mountains she had always dreamed of visiting.

When the first ray of sunlight broke through the clouds and lit up the entire snowy peak, golden light poured over everything. It reflected in her hollow eyes, as if something inside them was finally waking up.

Slowly, Nevaeh turned to look at me.

For the first time in what felt like forever, her lips curved into a gentle smile.

"Chester, thank you. For everything."

In that moment, I thought I had pulled her out of the darkness. I thought I had found the love of my life again.

We later got married, just like everyone expected. We had a son and a daughter, both bright and full of life.

However, when they turned ten, everything fell apart.

I became seriously ill and eventually was paralyzed, unable to even turn over in bed on my own.

That same day, Nevaeh walked into the house holding Edward's hand.

Edward