Chapter 7

For me, whether there's love or not... it just doesn't matter anymore.

My life has moved on to a new chapter.

"Love didn't change, nor did it disappear—it just shifted, didn't it?"

"Jack, for those five years and three months I spent looking for you, missing you, you were loving someone else the whole time, weren't you?"

I turned to look Jack straight in the eyes, and there was nothing but ice in mine.

"Once, we had a child."

"The day of your car accident, he was gone too."

"Then later, you told me we absolutely had to keep Lisa's baby—do you know how agonizing that was for me?"

The strongbox in Jack's hands crashed to the floor, its contents spilling everywhere.

Memories of their past love shattered, like tarnished jewels broken and scattered across the floor.

Jack's heart, too, shattered completely in that instant.

"Elena, for these past two years, these things... they're all I've had to remember every little moment we shared."