Overwhelmed with hope, she rushed to find him, only to freeze at the door when she overheard Dominic’s conversation with his friends.
“Bro, when are you gonna tell your wife you never actually lost your memory? You’ve been pretending this whole time.”
“Is Caroline really worth it? You’ve been torturing your wife for her. Aren’t you afraid she’ll give up on you completely?”
Through the crack in the door, Hazel saw Dominic exhale a smoke ring, his tone lazy and cold. “She won’t. Hazel loves me so much. She’d never leave.”
“Dude, we all saw how much you used to love her. What made you fall for that lunatic Caroline?”
“Because she’s crazy enough to love me back. Even after everything I did to her, when I was falling off that cliff, she still held onto me just to kiss me. She’s not afraid of dying… only of me not loving her,” he explained.
His words came out calm, almost gentle, but every syllable felt like a knife slicing through Hazel’s heart.
“Hazel could never do that. No matter how much she loves me, she still puts her family first. But Caroline is different, one look from me and she’s completely lost,” he added.