'Leona Grant really thought she should give up.'
'Maybe letting go is its own form of love, isn't it?'
'She had given so much for him. It was time he started thinking about her, too.'
He walked forward numbly.
Xylas Shepherd watched Leona Grant's lonely, retreating figure and said, vexed, "Nathaniel, did I screw up again? I just wanted Leona to take her mind off things, but I never thought we'd run into... this..."
"Do you think this proposal wouldn't have happened if you hadn't brought him here?"
That was true, but watching helplessly as the woman one loves accepts another man's proposal is a truly special kind of pain.
Xylas Shepherd said guiltily, "He could have found out slowly over time, which would have been a buffer. I'm afraid this blow was too severe for Leona."
