"Actually, under normal circumstances, I would have refused, but that day... I suddenly felt a strong urge to rebel. I don't know what came over me; I just wanted to be capricious for once, and so I agreed to Edric Reat's suggestion and went with him to Zhouzhuang."
"Actually, during those three days and two nights, there wasn't much between Edric Reat and me. I was in a bad mood, and he accompanied me to distract myself. But after returning to Ciawell, I regretted it and became afraid. You have no idea how much I feared that The Gregorys would find out that I had gone out to have fun with another man..."
The incident that had troubled Steve Burton for such a long time had occurred under such coincidental circumstances.
At that time, he thought she liked Edric Reat; he was jealous, he was furious, and then, for that little bit of pride deep within his heart, he hurt her.
Yet, he never knew that behind that incident, she was the most innocent and the one who suffered the most.
