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For more than 30 minutes, Richard stood in front of me with his hands all wrapped around his chest and wouldn’t say a word to me. The room was enveloped in silence, and his unstoppable glare gave me more fear.

I stood up when I felt like using the restroom but felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground. Luckily, Richard grabbed me instead. While in his arms on the ground, tears drilled from his eyes and dropped right in my face. He glared directly into my eyes, and my entire body began trembling.

"Hilda!" He called my name before throwing his face up. He paused and took a deep breath.

"Why did you come into my life? Why did you awaken the love that was once dead? A few days before that very day I met you, I had returned from a vacation that I embarked on after my heart was broken into a million pieces when I found out that Sherry, my ex, was cheating on me. I had to travel to stay away from every memory of Sherry and me. I had told myself not to fall in love with anyone after what Sherr