Chapter 16

"How can that be? We've only been apart for half a month! We were happy for the past two years, weren't we?" Leila was desperate to prove their relationship had mattered and recounted things that had happened between her and Ian over the past two years. However, he only felt like she was proving how much of a fool he'd been. He said, "But our relationship started as a lie." Leila froze. She had nothing to say in response to that. All she could do was look at him pleadingly. "I'm sorry, Ian. I know I made a mistake. I shouldn't have lied to you, but that doesn't mean what we had was fake." Her apology meant nothing to Ian. He'd given her his heart, yet she'd stomped all over it. He'd given her his sincere love, yet she and her friends had treated it as a plaything. Whatever they'd had between them had ended the moment he'd discovered the truth—deception was something he would never be able to tolerate. "Do you think an apology is enough to make up for everything I went through, Lei