Diane's heart dropped. Her heart broke for him, guilt ripped her mind. She should have seen through all of his actions rather than acting up. She reached out to him, held his palm in hers. 'I'm sorry you had to go through all of that too.'

'No... You ought not to apologize. I was a jerk. No matter my reasons, I should have still embraced you, my one and only source of Happiness' he declared, his eyes locked on hers.

In a swift moment, anger turned into pain, pain into guilt, guilt into sympathy and sympathy into desire.

Heat radiated all over Diane's body. Her heart pace increased drastically... and...