“WHAT?!” Hazel pulled her hand away from James's grip after hearing his confession.

That was indeed one of Edward's plan successes. But Hazel didn't intend for it to be like that. She wanted to take James's trust and betray him more deeply than he had betrayed her. Not to truly involve love between them.

James smiled slightly. “I'm sorry. But I just wanted Zia to know that I'm fine without her,” said James.

From the beginning, Hazel already knows that James is fine without her. Perhaps the drama at Zia's grave was James's way of showing Hazel how good he was.

There was no guarantee that James had truly changed...