Surviving Heartbreak novel

---- Chapter 11 Just like that, Jacob waited for three long days. But Penelope never returned to him. In fact, Michael's investigation made Jacob feel even more uneasy. Apparently, Penelope had already deregistered all identification documents in Clairvon. Not only that, but she had also cleared everything on her Twitter account. Penelope had recorded every single memory and moment that was accumulated from their eight-year journey together. Those memories were her most cherished things ever.

To think that she'd steel her heart and delete everything... Upon recalling the way Penelope had choked out her goodbye to him that day, Jacob felt a burst of mixed feelings engulfing him. Could it be that Penelope was bent on leaving him a long time ago? But Jacob soon denied that possibility. Penelope loved him far too much to be able to ditch him once and for all. She must have gone into hiding out of anger toward him just so she could scare him into thinking that she was gone.

---- He rushed home immediately . There, he checked all the rooms in hopes of seeing a certain familiar figure. But that was also when he found out that the room that housed all the gifts Penelope had given him over the years was stripped of everything . Not only that, but he also realized that all of the clothes and watches that she had given him had gone missing from his walk-in closet. Jacob turned to glare at Lauren, who stood behind him. "It seems that all of you have grown bold!

How dare you touch my belongings!" "It wasn't me, sir!" Poor Lauren was so frightened that she trembled like a leaf. "It was Mrs. Thornton! She... She was the one who burned all of your things!" Jacob felt as though a bolt of lightning had just struck him on the spot. He staggered backward before exclaiming furiously , "How ridiculous ! Penny loves me so much! There's no way she'd do something like that just to piss me off!

If anything , she's scared of angering me!" "Tt's true!" Lauren dared not look at Jacob at all. Her voice came out meek and tiny. "Mrs. Thornton even hired people to... to demolish the crab apple grove that you planted for her." Jacon's eyes went wide like dinner plates. He dashed out of the mansion and toward the crab apple grove. ---- What he saw made him so shocked that he could barely utter a word.

The crab apple grove, which was previously lush and vibrant, was now reduced to nothing but broken trunks and dead leaves. Jacob had personally planted the crab apple grove for Penelope on the day they got married. It was his promise for her-a promise that they'd stay together for the rest of their lives. Penelope loved the crab apple grove with all her heart. Every day, she'd nurture the trees and take good care of them in hopes of watching them bear fruit.

Once that happened, she'd distribute crab apples to her friends and family. But now... the crab apple grove was gone. Was she planning to not come home ever again? Did she not want Jacob anymore? Fear flooded Jacob's senses immediately. At that moment, he seemed to have returned to the darkest moment that had taken place three years ago, when he was abandoned by his friends and family before getting admitted into the psychiatric hospital.

He never wanted to experience those desperate and suffocating days ever again. Jacob looked around his surroundings while calling