"Lyla... How could you be so heartless? You didn't come get me. Those people were so rude to me..."
Disgusted by his pathetic act, Liliana finally lost her temper and raised her voice.
"Anthony, can you stop harassing me? I have my own life now. Why do you keep forcing your way into it?"
But Anthony seemed unable, or unwilling, to hear her. Instead, he wore a hopeful smile.
"Lyla, I know you still love me! I thought about it all night. There's no way you could forget me that easily! And besides... I had someone look into it. That little girl is adopted, isn't she? And that man is just courting you. He's not your husband, right?"
Anthony smiled with obvious relief. "You know how happy that makes me? You're not married, and you haven't had a child with him. That means I still have a cha
