C425 There's no chance right?

Maybe, she thought, it was just pity, just pity. He pitied this overweeningly arrogant man, losing so thoroughly and admitted so frankly.

No more chances … Yes, it's gone. There had been, but he had missed it.

Her wounded heart was like a clam shell that had been quietly opened before, and when he rubbed in, it was like sand that caused her to feel pain …

That night