When he heard that sudden question from Shirley, Carter stopped in his tracks amidst pushing Shirley’s wheelchair.

He looked at the sea that was glistening under the sunset, but there was no light in his eyes.

He smiled half-heartedly.

“There are no ifs in this world.”

He answered, then asked, chuckling.

“If there were ifs, and if I could go back to the first time I met you on the street, do you think I would help you again?”

After Shirley thought about it, she displayed a helpless and sel