The doorbell kept ringing, but Nicole seemed not to hear it. She still lay on her bed cozily, thinking about the way Riley looked like at this moment. The latter must be reluctant yet had to come to beg her.

Back then, after she escaped barely with her life. The first bolt from the blue when she woke up was the insults on the Internet. The obscene photos of her and another man and the curses others gave her for being unfaithful almost destroyed her courage to live. If it was not Lucas's presence that continued to encourage her, she would probably die from the gossips of others even though...