Domineering Love

"There are no ifs..." Chloe Turner murmured, repeating his words. One hand clutched her pocket tightly, while the other formed a fist. Her sad expression was extremely painful as she stubbornly asked, "Why did you still stick to that promise then?! You didn’t let me suffer on my own because of the sanitary pad, and you said it was for my brother, but I know, you have feelings for me too, right?! Otherwise, you wouldn’t have agreed to marry me back then. If I hadn’t left, we would have been married by now, wouldn’t we? Why can’t the sanitary pad go back to the way it was?!"

"William, you clearly haven’t forgotten me! I’ve always been in your heart! Haven’t I?!" Chloe’s eyes were filled with tears, her voice trembling.

William Griffith stood before her, quietly replying, "I don’t want to betray Bob Turner."

Was it really just that? Was it just because of her brother’s request that he accepted her? It couldn’t be. William was not a man who could just handle his lifetime emotions like that. Taking in someone else’s wishes without questioning them? He couldn’t accept her as his wife if he had no feelings for her.

Such a simple answer, yet it was incredibly bitter for Chloe Turner to hear.

There he stood right in front of her, maintaining that five-meter distance - the same distance he’d always kept while waiting outside the school, outside the dormitory, on the shaded path... so many places filled with memories.

Chloe suddenly began to hate this five-meter distance. She bit her lip and ran towards him, opening her arms wide and hugging him tightly. Tears swirled in her eyes and she choked out, "William, I don’t want any ’what ifs’, I don’t want them, I don’t want...!"

She kept repeating the words "I don’t want," trying to grasp something in return.