rsh words, but as your long-time friends, we're truly concerned about

cketing his phone. "Doesn't matter

y refuge. He was not worried be

"Catherine is the bigger person

"Keep your mouth shut for one night. Va

't want much. Just want to be accepted by yo

ly. "You're forever our princess, and we wi

mes. He'd sit back, watching his crew banter with Cat

e smiled faint

. Instead, she settled

he closed the door behind her. Aiden's limp-mocking replayed en

r whispers behind her back,

ided conflicts, unwilling to add to his bu

er clash with them over her; the

t-a burden that dragged him down. Witho

ple. Who else

expects so mu

ippled one than wed o

rs; Vance? He doesn't even have s

had heard over the past five years

n it all. She couldn't breathe, the pain so intense i

untouched for five years. It contained photos and videos fro

gone home yet. There was hardly anyone left in the of

don't know how to face

cca didn't understand the imp

n't tell me you haven'

, even though she had hinted or taken the initiative. Every time,

e her, and that was why he didn't want to touch her. But hearin

him, "You don't mean to tell me you have no physi

t, and for the following years, it continually wounded her.

ve a normal married life with her, but every

hied from saving him, in his eyes was disgusting, revolting

at day. The meal she had prepared with

never set foot in