Love Unspoken

"Why?" Quinn's fingers strained against the biting wind as she gestured. "Why are you so inconsistent with me? Why would you follow me off a cliff?"

"Why do you dote on Getty one moment, and the next, suggest we have another child so nonchalantly? Alexander, what do I truly mean to you?"

His silence was deafening. His dark eyes, shadowed by the backlight, remained locked on her, his expression inscrutable. Against the stark light, Quinn's disheveled figure stood out in stark contrast. They were a world apart, divided by a chasm she could never bridge.

Quinn reached out, her voice choked with unshed tears, forcing the words out. "Have you, have you ever..." Loved me. She couldn't complete the sentence before he cut her off.

"Stop," he commanded, his voice devoid of emotion-likely the only response she would receive.

loosening, her hand falling limply to her side. It had always been her, nursing a one-sided love. How absurd it was that she had sought answers from him. He had never professed his love for her. She had been deluded. His defiance towards Kaitlyn, his reckless

and the cliff jump was a calculated risk, knowing the water below would break his fall. She had fallen into the trap he had laid, grasping at straws of his affection. Like a lost wanderer in the desert, mistaking the smallest dewdrop in the sand as a sign

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As long as he

to anyone who desired it. She averted her gaze and turned to leave. Alexander did

then, Kaitlyn approached, her face lit up with joy

going to let her languish in jail for life,

go." Alexander pulled his arm free and strode away briskly. Unfazed,