Chapter 68. Burdened Away

He stares down at her. She looked so defeated... and so was he.

He realises that she was indeed in love with him, even if it was for a very brief while. 

Otherwise, why would she laugh and cry with him during his happiest and hardest times? He did not know the reason for her wanting to seek love from him, but he wasn't willing to forgive her because of her selfishness again.

"So you decided to love money more than me." He says at the end. She bursts out crying.

"If you really did love me, you would have stopped everything, court me while being single and unacquainted and love me for who I was. I always knew you were there for my money, lady. But i overlooked it because I loved you like a fool. When you were with that man, in my house and in my bed, I lost it. I threw up our four months of relationship with alcohol and I was underage. I will never forgive you." His voice turned shaky towards the end too.

As she cried... a