CHAPTER 52

“Are we still going to act like everything’s alright?” Daniel struggled to swallow. “You know we need to talk about it at some point, right?”

“There’s nothing to talk about. Why can’t you get that into your head?” Esther hissed, “We are adults with separate individual lives, let’s keep what’s past in the past.”

The desperation in her tone burned Daniel’s heart, “What? Scared you’d return to being obsessed with me?”

His tone held an unfamiliar arrogance, he was baiting her.

“Ob- Are you kidding me?” She dropped her spoon, “What on earth is there to be obsessed with? Give yourself a break, if I want to get hurt, I’ll be fine slicing my fingers. Just to set facts straight, I wasn’t obsessed about you, I was-

“In love with me.” Daniel sufficed and she rolled her eyes.

“Infatuated. I was a stupid little girl who didn’t know shit even if it stared her in the face. And for that, I paid dearly.”

His eyes turned furious, “Don’t insult what we shared, I will take everything else but please-