"I couldn't ask for more," Mila said, her attitude unchanged. "What happened between us is no different from any other exes. Stop letting Kate use it against you. If this keeps dragging on, I'm afraid Issac will misunderstand."
He was silent for a long while. "What happened between us wasn't a misunderstanding. It was real."
Mila lowered her eyes. "You and I were just fooling around when we were young, weren't we?"
Jacob gave a dark, chilling laugh. "How cold and heartless."
Mila said nothing. But the moment she took her first step away, the sound of wood cracking suddenly rang beside her ear.
"There's nothing left between us anymore."
Jacob threw the wooden prayer plaque into the trash.
Not a single ripple stirred in her heart.
There had been nothing left to begin with.
When Mila
