Christian's attention was entirely on his sister.
It seemed to him as if she had been holding back countless feelings inside her, keeping them bottled up for so long, and now, finally, she was trying to release them all.
And Christian... he was determined to be there for her, to listen to her until the very end, to accept everything she wanted to give him… be it whatever it was.
'So, then... what comes after that?' Christian wondered, and waited patiently.
Luckily, he didn't need to wait long before Annabelle continued, "That's when I arrived at the conclusion that I was too half-hearted... that I was distracted by too many things."
"… And I decided to stop caring about all of that."
"Just do what you want."
"As long as you are happy... as long as I'm by your side... then I don't care."
'After all of that, this is what you arrived at?' Christian couldn't help but think, feeling both surprised and moved.
It wasn't that he wasn't touched. No, he was, deeply so.
