Seven Years Lost: My Firefighter fiancé Saved Everyone But Our Love - Chapter 92: Chapter 92

His features looked exactly like Rosalind's.
Asher managed to speak out: "Nolan!"
"Mommy and Uncle Henry got married in there. Dad, you should go back to London."
Asher's eyes filled with agony as he kept pounding on the thick glass with his fists.
"No, that's impossible. Your mom loves me. Nolan, I'm begging you, open the door. I need to see your mom. I have to see her!"
But Nolan shook his head: "Dad, you can't get in here. Opening the iron door is already the most I can do. I never thought you'd spend seven years trying to find Mom."
Afraid Asher wouldn't believe him, Nolan grabbed his tablet.
On the screen was Rosalind in Henry's arms.
Rosalind looking down while Henry kissed her.
The scene stabbed right through Asher's eyes. He coughed up blood.
So this was what it felt like when the person you loved was with someone else, seeing these images—it was pure torture.
He'd thought Rosalind might end up with Henry out of gratitude.
But he never thought Rosalind would actually stop loving him and fall for Henry instead.
The way she looked at Henry, he knew that look too well.
That bright, shining light in her eyes—she'd looked at him like that for nine years.
Until Claire showed up, and it gradually disappeared.
Asher kept coughing, blood splattering on the glass.
Nolan frantically called out: "Dad, Dad..."
Through his haze, Asher thought he saw Rosalind. He forced himself to open his eyes.
Rosalind looked up and met Asher's gaze.
Seven years. This was their first time seeing each other after seven years.
This time Nolan begged Rosalind. "Mommy, please, can you bring Dad inside?"
"No, this is a research facility."
"Then I'm going out."
Rosalind knew that for seven years, Nolan had been secretly watching Asher through the surveillance.
She never said anything about it.
"Nolan, once you leave, you can never come back in. You know that, right?"
Nolan's eyes filled with tears.
"Mommy, I forgive Dad. He can't keep going like this. I'll go out and stay with him. There are twenty-three years left—I'll be grown up by then and can come get you."
Rosalind couldn't keep Nolan there in the end.
The door opened, but it was Nolan leaving.
Rosalind watched through the glass as Nolan used his small body to carry Asher on his back.
Looking at Nolan, Rosalind's mind flashed to eighteen-year-old Asher.
Just like that—rebellious teenager with that cocky smile.
Nolan looked at Rosalind through his tears.
"Mommy, take good care of yourself. I made a fake video to make Dad think you're in there with Uncle Henry. Focus on your research. Your son will always have your back. I'll come visit you, but Dad needs me more right now."
Nolan carried Asher away.
Rosalind stood there, watching Nolan climb up the stairs that Asher had dug, step by step.
Henry walked over. He caught Rosalind as she almost fell.
"Nolan leaving—that's what you wanted, isn't it?"
Rosalind nodded: "Don't tell Nolan about my condition. Let him think I can still be in here for twenty-three years."
Once again, the place was sealed.
Everything Asher had dug was buried over.
In the time that followed, Asher lived in a complete daze. He never mentioned going to the Pacific to find Rosalind again.
All his spirit had been drained away. His mind was filled with images of Rosalind and Henry kissing.
Every day he'd only ask: "Nolan, what does your mom do in there every day?"
"Experiments. The research Mom brought there seven years ago has had huge results. She's saved so many little lives. That research can purify nuclear contamination in seawater. Mom also plays with those little creatures personally."
"She... loves the ocean that much?"
Nolan nodded: "Mom says those little creatures are simpler than people. You just need to be good to them, and they'll give back."
Asher's eyes went red. "So that's it... I was wrong..."
But Nolan's heart was breaking.
He knew Mom didn't have much time left. She was taking so many medications.
Because of the ocean, because of those nuclear contamination experiments.
Mom was destroying her body to heal the ocean.
She'd succeeded, but she didn't have long.
What Mom worried about most was him. So he came out—to let Mom spend her remaining time in peace.
He looked at his father Asher.
Dad's only reason for living was hoping Mom would come out to see him once.
In the days that followed, Nolan grew up. When he was seventeen, he got a message from Uncle Henry.
"Nolan, your mom's final experiment was successful, but she's also sleeping forever in the deep sea. Your mom left you a letter."
Nolan looked at what was sent—it was a drawing.
The family portrait he'd drawn on the wall as a child.
He broke down crying.. "Mommy..."
From not far behind him, Amy called out:
"Young master, Mr. Kemnis is dying. You need to see him one last time."
Nolan ran upstairs.
Asher was on his deathbed, his hair completely white. Though he was only forty, he was completely spent.
"Nolan, I can't wait for your mom to come out. In twenty years, tell her I love her. I'll always love only her."
Before Nolan could say anything, Asher's hand had already gone limp.
Nolan never got to tell Asher that Mom was already dead—she was gone too.
Seven days later, Nolan followed Asher's last wish, bringing Asher's ashes to the Pacific island.
Under a tree not far away was Rosalind's tombstone!