She didn't know what she would become if he truly regarded her as one of those women. Would she cling to the tiniest taste of happiness, and then fall into an abyss of no return?
"Joshua Sulliven... If I had returned to the country to find you several years earlier, would the person you love be me?" Jill Gilbert whispered, her gaze reflecting a faint shimmer of water.
The silent Joshua Sulliven finally spoke, his voice soft, "No."
A tear rolled down from Jill Gilbert's eyes as she lowered her gaze and whispered, "Do you know? I've always been indignant as to why it's not me you love when we met earlier... I've also been wondering if back then I had not been so arrogant, arrogantly assuming you would come back to find me, arrogantly believing that only I was the right one for you, then I wouldn't have missed you like this."
"In love, we never met, so where is the question of missing out?" Joshua Sulliven's indifferent reply felt ruthlessly cold.
