"That's not true, Claire! You're lying to me, aren't you? You only love me, it can only ever be me!"
Jacob could not accept what I had just said.
He lunged forward to confront me, but he was pulled back and stopped.
I stared right into his eyes and said with a smile, "Six years ago, when I first met you, I had just lost him, and your red, teary eyes looked so much like his. So I made a cruel, selfish choice to keep you by my side—I poured money and resources into you, just to see the same love for me in those eyes that he had."
Jacob ran out of the villa.
This time was different from before; he fled in utter disarray.
Only after he left did I turn to the man who had been standing beside me this whole time.
"Andrew, why didn't you come find me all these years?"
My tears fell like pe
