Chapter 125. Did I Hear a Threat?

Lake knew it was true. Matters of love could not be battled with. Only the two people involved had the power to resolve their own matters.

Nevertheless, Michelle never forced Ezrah to take the knife for her and was not under obligation to be by his side. If she decided to, then she indeed loved him but was just afraid to let it show.

“I’m sorry. All I wish is for you both to be happy. I was there when you faked your death. Ezrah lived like a man without purpose, overworking himself just to forget about you, terribly failing at it.”

Lake recalled those years, and his heart ached because he had given Ezrah hope that Michelle must have been alive.

“He mostly drank himself to sleep, and now that you are back, you both are just torturing each other,” Lake pointed out.

Michelle agreed that loving someone and rejecting them was even more painful than the cold treatments Ezrah gave her, but what was the assurance that things would get better?

What if they