That was the whole story, the misunderstanding, and how they parted without getting to clear the air.
Valerie stared at Max, waiting to hear what he had to say but Max was incredibly dumbfounded. He was shocked. Everything he told himself till this moment were lies and the ones who caused it were...
"At some point, a few years after that, I was tempted to find you but... I decided against it." Valerie said. "I decided to simply watch you from afar. I saw the news about you, your accomplishments, and the likes and I said to myself, 'With all this, he's become a man out of reach. I'd be shameless to simply approach him out of nowhere and after all these years of separation'." She said and lowered her head.
She twiddled her thumbs.
