"I know, but what she needed most at that time was not my love, but the warmth of her family."
So, this ending was one I had painted for myself from the beginning.
"You've been together for four years, and you're still waiting, but Charlotte has never considered you. If she had, it wouldn't have been year after year..."
"Mom, just tell me directly what happened with Kevin Cliff at dinner that made her act out of the ordinary," Gavin Turner wiped his face with sadness and interrupted softly.
"Coming out of the restroom, we happened to see Charlotte frantically breaking the soup bowl. We don't know what Kevin said to her, but just a single sentence was enough to make her panic like that, not to mention that after Kevin left, she asked us about the night she left all those years ago, whether Kevin called her the next day to find her or not."
"So..." Gavin Turner's lips curved into a resigned smile, her heart had wavered again.