The Dare That Ended Us
“Clara, do you know? Actually, for your birthday this year, I hid a diamond ring in the cake to propose to you.
“But it got interrupted. That night, Ethan got rear-ended.
“You panicked so badly, I had no choice but to follow you to check on him. When we arrived, he hadn’t even been scratched.”
Her quiet, choked sobs came through the receiver.
“Nathan…Oh, Nathan, it’s my fault. This time, let me propose to you, okay?”
I shook my head.
“No.
“In a way, we’re quite similar—stubborn, always insisting on our own way.
“But I’ve spent five years realizing my own foolishness.
“Let me go, Clara. What’s lost is lost.”
Finally, she couldn’t hold back her cries.
It was the first time she had cried for me