Three days later.
It had been close to three weeks since Kiara and Samuel had last met. Just like any other, he'd found out about her marriage from the internet.
It hurt. Can you imagine the woman Samuel had loved for years? She got married. Without telling him. It felt like a betrayal.
Some sort of a backstab. Samuel had never given up on Kiara. He was ready to wait. But when he saw the article that day, all his hope was shattered.
He realized he'd been so delusional. Of course, Samuel knew, Kiara saw him as an elder brother. But he had hoped that one day that would change.
Samuel sat behind his desk, his eyes fixed on the file in front of him, but his mind was nowhere near the case. The words blurred together, paragraphs merging into nothingness as the same thought replayed in his head over and over again. Married. The word felt foreign when attached to Kiara. It didn't sit right. It refused to.
