Seth Ellington and I were the only ones left in the room. He smoked one cigarette after another. Cigarette butts littered the ground at his feet. "Since you've heard it all, I won't hide it from you anymore. I pretended to have amnesia because I wanted to be with Lillian, but after everything we've been through together, I…" He turned and met my teary eyes.Seth's expression softened in an instant. "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Why don't you pretend this never happened, and we can go back to how things used to be, okay?" I avoided his touch and spat out, "Let's break up."The smile on his face stiffened. He let go of my hand, lit another cigarette, and said wearily, "I don't want to.""In that case, break things off with her." Seth looked at me in silence for a long while. "I'll be honest with you, Cali. I want to marry Lillian just to prove a point. Five years ago, she left me for money, and three years ago, she came back to me for the same reason."I want to
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