C27 - Rest your case.

“Did I scare you?” She asked Ethan.

“Not a bit,” Ethan denied.

When Ally woke up, she saw Ethan, who had fallen asleep at the side of her bed, holding one of her hands.

He wasn’t kidding. He still loved her. She could feel it. She knew Ethan well. He wouldn’t waste his time coming here every day if she weren’t important to him. He was still the man she had loved and left two years ago.

The same Ethan who was willing to defy even his own parents just to keep her in his life.

He was the man who would move mountains just to be with her. But he was also the one she was trying to protect the most. She made the hardest decision when she left him because she didn’t want him to lose her through death. She thought that if he believed she no longer loved him, he would move on more quickly if he was angry.

Compared to knowing she wanted to fight but that death would separate them.

Then again, it seemed she had underestimated his love for her.

“You’re lying,” she insisted. She knew he was scared.