Only You

Dearlin once dreamed of marrying the person she loved.
However, she soon realized that this was a futile hope.

“My, was I too late?”

Having lost everyone who had stood by her side and accepted a marriage to the man who killed her father, she saw him appear before her.

“Have you been well?”

Rian Sinaster. Her longtime friend, former lover, and the man she had once promised to marry.

“I objected to this marriage.”
“……”
“You belong to me, Dearlin. Don’t you?”

Without hesitation, he ruined the wedding, stole Dearlin away, and killed her husband.

***

She believed that they could overcome their differences and love each other again.
Although the wounds they had inflicted on each other were deep, she thought they could surely overcome them.
So, she desperately suppressed the anxiety that continued to creep into her heart.
It was her love for Rian and the child they had finally been blessed with that enabled her to endure that fear.
However, when Rian became embroiled in a scandal with another woman and was not by her side when their child died, she finally realized that this love had been wrong from the beginning.

“What must I do for you to forgive me?”

He never came when she spent those lonely days waiting endlessly for him alone.
So why was he asking for forgiveness now?

“I told you already, Rian. I don’t love you anymore.”

The woman who once loved him and allowed herself to be hurt by him no longer existed anywhere.