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038. Whoever Takes It Seriously First Loses_1

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With a somber look, she put away the icy distance that had rejected him completely, her face transformed into a hint of melancholy and sadness as she sighed softly.

"Adam Jones, let it go," she said. "I was wrong in the past. From this moment on, let's pretend we never knew each other, okay?"

Her pleading eyes looked at Adam Jones, but they were more hurtful than the fierceness of the past, stabbing more accurately and cruelly into Adam Jones's heart.

She... she was asking him to let go!

This realization brought on a familiar yet bewildering dull pain in Adam Jones's heart, flooding back like a deluge, so painful that he dared not even move, for fear that it would tear his heart even more.

Act like we never knew each other?

He found self-deception impossible. Even with the hatred, it was much easier than letting her go.