Leona Grant greedily drank in her scent, pleading pitifully, "Annabelle Linton, don't go. I know I was wrong. Please, just give me one more chance, okay? I can't live without you. I really, really can't."
Hearing this, Annabelle Linton's expression faltered, and a faint, dazed look flickered in her eyes.
'Once, she too had thought she couldn't live without Leona Grant. But in reality, no one in this world is truly indispensable to anyone else.'
'The feeling of not being able to leave someone only meant that you were still holding onto a sliver of wishful thinking. And that wishful thinking was the last lingering ember of hope.'
'Leona Grant refused to let her go because he thought there was still hope. Therefore, she had to shatter that little bit of hope for him.'
'If they couldn't be together, they needed to make a clean break. It was better for everyone that way.'
Annabelle Linton said in a low, emotionless voice, "Let go."
"I won't."
