But in the end, Anathea turned her face away and calmly said, "Gregory, there's too much between us. You can't just say 'let's start over' and expect everything to go back to how it was."
The truth was, she had wavered. She had once wanted to try again with him.
Even though he had hurt her over and over, and her feelings for him had nearly faded, she still wavered when he said he would help her find them again.
Unfortunately, even if they had both come so close to meeting in the middle, the final steps remained an unbridgeable gap between them.
First, there was the Sinclair family. They were deeply tangled in schemes and as ruthless as starving beasts. The moment they caught even the slightest hint of blood, they would go wild, attacking fiercely and dragging her into an endless abyss of despair.
Second, there was her father, Adam. The Castenea Bridge incident had always been riddled with suspicion. Anathea had found gaps in the so-called evidence, but she still couldn't fully pro
