Shattered Vows: Call Me Auntie Now novel Chapter 369

Quinn's eyes darted slightly as a sudden realization hit her. "Wait, did you... have a crush on someone in the past?"

"But she didn't like you back, so you just loved her from afar and never dated anyone else?"

Raymond kept his eyes on the television screen. The entertainment show was boisterous, the male and female guests laughing together in a chaotic heap.

It was as if he could see a distant past playing out through the noise.

He gave a low, quiet, "Mhm."

His voice was deep, perfectly matching his naturally reserved and guarded personality.

The shifting light from the television danced across his striking, flawless features, making the sharp contours of his profile seem even more unreadable.

Quinn froze.

"Huh?"

"You really had an unrequited crush?"

She lifted her head from his embrace once again, her clear eyes wide with utter shock.

She was no longer a naive, insecure girl; she wasn't about to throw a jealous tantrum over something like this.

After all, everyone had a past.

Raymond was thirty-two years old. It was perfectly normal for him to have loved someone before.

Not only was she not angry, but her heart actually ached for him.

She had read once that unrequited love was a lonely, devastating war fought by one person alone.

Your heart races alone, you miss them alone, and you endure the agonizingly endless yearning all by yourself.

Stealing glances at her, burying your true feelings deep down.

Carefully guarding that secret affection, unable to speak, unable to intrude, forced to lock all those emotions away in the dark.

No wonder he had never dated anyone.

No wonder he always carried that impenetrable, icy aura that kept everyone else at arm's length.

It turned out he had been hiding an impossible love in his heart all along.

Seeing her fall silent, Raymond frowned slightly.

"What's wrong? Are you jealous?"

Quinn shook her head. "No."

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