In his whole life, he had always gone after what he wanted and never thought of giving up. Yet, he broke his own rules for her again and again.
Only now did he realize that not being able to have something wasn't the most heartbreaking, it was forcing himself to let go that was the cruelest.
Though he was the only one in the spacious three-hundred-square-meter apartment, he still covered his face with his hands, daring to cry out loud only then.
He cried for a long time before Steve Burton finally calmed down. Slowly grabbing the railing, he stood up and walked towards the master bedroom with steady steps.
In the bedroom, there were two life-sized mannequins, a man and a woman, dressed in the outfits he and Ruby Gregory had chosen for their engagement banquet today. Three or four suits and dresses hung on a rolling rack nearby.
These were the outfits she had picked out personally, the outfits they were supposed to wear today.
