"I've thought about many, many things, but I never once thought about giving up."
The years of separation hadn't caused his feelings for her to fade. On the contrary, they had only grown stronger.
He had decided long, long ago that she was the one he would spend his life with. How could he give up just because of a few words from her?
At this moment, Stella Sterling felt a strange sensation in her heart.
She couldn't quite name the feeling, but she could clearly sense that something inside her had just broken.
'Or perhaps, Gordon Ford had always been in her heart. It was just that too much time had passed, and she had been through too much, so she had kept those feelings suppressed deep inside.'
'The moment she agreed to be with Gordon Ford, they would have to spend the rest of their lives together.'
But after all the betrayals she had endured, all the things she had been through and witnessed, she had no confidence that the two of them could last forever.
