---- guilt?" Okay, I was running out of patience. "And why should I? I worked hard just to make sure you can have the best the world has to offer, but you'd take an outsider's side and interrogate me like I'm some sort of criminal!" The look in her eyes went colder than anything I'd ever seen. I probably struck a nerve. She was fierce. "Claude is my... He's not an outsider!" I smiled dryly. "And what am I?" No answer. Winona gave mea scathing look and stormed off. I slumped into my seat, my heart filled with fury and sorrow. It was... complicated. We'd been dating for five years, and marriage was on the horizon, yet Winona would throw away all that foundation, all that trust, all just for Claude. My fists balled up, and veins throbbed on the back of my hands. Very well, then. We'd come to the end of the line. ---- I did not need a relationship like this. If you could even call it a relationship to begin with.