"Do you mean it?"
"Do I… mean it?" Vincent blinked a few times as he tried to process the question. "Are you doubting me?"
Chloe's lips thinned as she was holding the pain in her heart, "Just tell me, do you really mean what you said? About wanting to live together and mend everything that you did wrong?"
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"I mean it, Chloe," Vincent replied to assure Chloe. "I mean everything I said. I realized that I can't live without you. I feel empty when you're not by my side."
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'Looking at him like this makes me think that all the pain I've experienced for the past ten years is all an illusion in my head,' Chloe thought. 'That all of my hardships get invalidated just because he said some sweet words….'
Chloe's heart was crushed because she realized she couldn't feel a thing anymore. Even after all the sweet words, he said, her heart was cold and dead for him.
