Theodore looked down, and nodded as gently as he could. "I admit that I do feel guilt toward you, but...I don't love you." Cynthia pulled the sheets open with a whoosh, and rushed to the windows.
Theodore immediately chased after her. "Cindy!" He shot out like an arrow toward Cynthia, and grabbed her arm.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtCynthia charged forward stubbornly. "Letgo! Letgo!" "Cindy, don't be like this!" Theodore pulled her back hard.
"No, just letdie! What's the point of living? Letdie, letgo!" Cynthia cried brokenly, and threw herself into his embrace as Theodore pulled her back. She hugged him tight, and buried her head in his chest. "You can't treatlike this," she said through sobs. "You can't be like this! You said you wanted to marry me! You promised me... You promised me!" "Cindy, didn't you hear what the doctor said? You can't get agitated." "I'm getting agitated, I don't care! I managed to survive, and this is how you treat me? What's the point of surviving? Just letdie! Letdie!" Theodor grabbed her shoulders, and pushed her away from his embrace. He asked emphatically, "Cindy, do you really want to marrythat badly?" Cynthia stared at him with tear-filled eyes. "Do you even need to askthat?" "Will you still want to marryand be Mrs. Spencer, even if I don't love you?" "That's what you promised me! Why are you talking about love right now? Theo, I just want you to keep your word, whether you loveor not. Just know that I love you, and that can even give you a bit of my love for you. No-I can give you so much of it and I'll still have endless love for you, because nothing in this world can compare with the love I have for you! I don't care about anything else as long as you're by my side. I can give up on everything!" Theodore looked down in disappointment.
The sorrowful face of a woman appeared in his mind. It didn't belong to Cynthia, but Rosalie.
The only thing he saw was hopelessness.
He had never felt such hopelessness toward Rosalie, and such hopelessness cfrom himself. He couldn't see any hope of reconciling with her, and she would never forgive him. She had married Sebastian-there was no turning back.
"Alright, I'll marry you. I'll take you back today to make preparations, and we'll hold our wedding the day after tomorrow," he finally said.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmCynthia was in disbelief when she heard that. She wanted to ask him if he was for real, but each tshe asked something like that, he would reassure her that it was. This tshe didn't dare to believe it was, but she had to.
Aside from taking him at his word, she had no other choice.
Cynthia opened her mouth to say something, but Theodore cutcher off. "Cindy, there's one more thing you must understand." "What is it?"
"I can marry you, but you must know that I don't love you. I'll treat you well because you're Mrs. Spencer and you thing you want, but I can won't treat you the way a husband treats his wife. I won't even sleep on the sbed as you. Do you still want to marry me?"
The cruelest words were often m spoken in the calmest way possible. "Theo, must you put it so cruelly?"