Even at breakfast, when she capriciously said, "I want to drink Lean Brand's soy milk," he would go out and buy it without a word.
In those few days, he didn't spend much time at home, but as long as he was there, he was decent to her.
Almost anything she wanted, she got.
Now that she thought about it carefully, it was precisely at that time that he learned Zachary Santos had returned to Landon.
Hearts can't withstand close scrutiny.
If you truly scrutinize them, the one who gets hurt is yourself.
Suddenly, she felt an illusion, like the reflection of flowers in a mirror or the moon in water, intangible, ungraspable, elusive.
Just like sand slipping through one's fingers.
Possibly the only two things that could ever occupy Zaiden Santos's heart were the Santos Family and Harper Glorian.
Beyond that, everything else could be sacrificed, used merely as a backdrop.
She, Ann Nolan, was no different, just a lowly sacrificial victim.