before he could say anything. Rosr shot him down. "Come on, this isn''t some tragic romance novel


    ation, and didn''t take 1 dens words seriously


    feeling rehactant just because she had brought up divorce, then getting his heart


    was


    vas way too easy


    her him, only to be met with indifference. How could signing a a divorce paper suddenly


    y change


    all those years of devotion and all those moments of heartbreak in her previous


    life would be nothing m


    more than a ridiculous


    ally packed up another pi


    pie with her fork. Besides, his ex is back. As his substitute, I should''ve taken the hint he way of their reunion"


    as if the thought no longer affected her. Maybe it was because she had finallye to terms with the fact that she than Roseanne''s substitute all along. Saying it out loud now didn''t sting the way it used to


    watch be carefully. She looked unbothered,pletely at ease. But if he hadn''t caught that fleeting trace of sadness in


    ally believed that she had let Julian go.


    had been by her side for a year. He had watched her grow from a fourteen-year- old prodigy into the woman she was now.


    self a genius, but after meeting Rosalie, he was more than willing to take a step back and y the role of her assistant. blink of an eye, and geniuses by nature, were proud and arrogant. Rosalie was no exception.


    forgettable


    that arrogance, abandoned the pedestal she was born to stand on, and humbled herself just to stay by his side as an


    1. me. His voice was steady, but there was a weight to it that made her fingers tighten slightly around her fork. alber "o", but whenever be addressed her "Rosalie" with that particr tone, it meant he was about to say something serious. ed her pate and asked. "Yeah?"


    Ides testard for


    ndb


    you consider gettin


    getting back with him?"


    tinaby asking. "If julian really can''t let you go, would y loube didnt even have to think about it. The answer was immediate, firm, and absolute. "Julian despises me. He''s spent our entire


    be could drow me as far away as possible. Why would he suddenlye back to me1


    dropped ha


    cor Hetime to truly ept that reality, but at least in this life, she


    wasn''t toote.


    y failed, reced by silence.


    ween them before she finally spoke. "No, I''ll never get back with him"


    the sting behind her eyes and reaffirmed her decision. "Eddie, I''m tired. I''m exhausted over the past year of being


    at even counting her previous lide


    – many nights waiting for hum toe home. From fully awake to barely keeping my eyes open, he never showed up. I turn, but somehow, that was even harder than making a breakthrough in any research."


    out a breath her souneced with something between regret and relief. "If I had known loving him would be this painful, I would have let gu