Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Ethan's determination and conviction moved me but also brought me exasperation.

In this battle, there might be no gunpowder involved, but every person's decision was of utmost importance. As for me, I needed to build myself a solid defense line.

"I thank you for your thought, but please allow me to face all of these my way." My sorrowful ending was already written for me since I pestered him shamelessly in the beginning.

"As for us, keeping our distance from each other is probably the best way for us to protect each other." I took a deep breath and tried to sound as calm and determined as possible. He looked intently at me, an unknown emotion flashed in his eyes, which eventually turned into nothing but a helpless sigh.

Our conversation ended just like that. We probably didn't part on good terms, or it could be that we both knew that we couldn't salvage anything between us.

Even if he was back in Yardville, he couldn't change anything while I watched all of these unfold quietly.

The rest of the things were done pretty smoothly. Kevin and I got a private investigator and we hired him to help us find out what Jack had all those years ago.

There was surely still some leftover stock at Wiley Group but I had to know the secrets they held.

sharp, steely eyes like he could pry into one's deepest, darkest secrets

the information we gave him, read through it solemnly, and nodded his head, telling us that he would give it

and wariness assured us, at least in investigating these baseless, questionable mysteries, that we would

to the

Jack Wiley was once involved with." Howard jotted on his notepad quickly

these would probably take some time since it wouldn't be easy to have fo dig out

nodded understandably. We knew that this path wouldn't be an easy one. But since we have

and I worked separately with him continuing to work on designing whereas I continued to keep close contact with Howard so we knew the progress of the

had one collaboration with Mr. Johnson. They were doing art

regarding Mr. Johnson but if you would like to know what exactly happened, you need to personally

constricted

Johnson was a familiar, yet unfamiliar name to me. From what