A stern declaration regarding having lost my feelings for the young Knight should’ve been enough to get anybody to stop chasing me, but Tobias's feelings remained unaffected. There was still the longing that lingered on his face, the one that I had witnessed when I had entered his office. Aware of how I shouldn’t entertain him any longer, I excused myself.
“No, don’t leave. I am not done,” urged Tobias, grabbing my hand.
Though exhausted from being forced into the same insipid discussion, I had to hear him out for the sake of avoiding being the object of his ire in the office, and therefore, I said “What is it that you want from me?”
Pulling me closer to him, he took a deep breath and then spoke in a voice brimming with emotions, “I still love you, Dimitra. Can’t you see how I suffer
