The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Chapter 878

"I know this sounds absurd," Yvette said, her voice heavy with sorrow.

Tears rolled down her cheeks, one after another, as she continued, "But I've been there for Gavin through it all, from the moment he started dating his first girlfriend until now, and yet he's never once considered me."

Sherry leaned back against the couch, her arms crossed, watching her cry with a mixture of frustration and helplessness.

"If he keeps wasting his time with you, I'll never have a chance," Yvette added.

Then, it dawned on Sherry. A glimmer of amusement flickered in her eyes.

"I think he's never noticed you because he believed you'd always be there for him, just like I was. Maybe you need a boyfriend more than I do," she said.

Yvette's voice grew sharp. "I don't want anyone else! There's no one else I could ever see myself with."

with a sharp irony. After all, it was Yvette's feelings for Gavin that had driven her to sabotage every relationship he'd

it might be time to consider seeing other people. That doesn't mean

to mean?" Yvette's

not until I walked away," Sherry said. "It wasn't until I ended things that he finally started seeing me as someone with

pressuring you to settle down, that you're tired of waiting and might just go along with their plan to

"Don't you think he might finally realize

over

feet. "Just a thought, of course. If it's not

turned and

remember when she first fell for Gavin. Maybe it began in high school,

into something more. By the

herself wondering why it had to be Gavin. There were countless exceptional men

Sherry stepped out of the elevator, she bumped into Sasha, who had been