First message
I wasn’t supposed to see you that day.
I’d just walked out of a meeting when I spotted you across the lobby, and suddenly months of convincing myself I’d moved on became complete bullshit.
God, I’d missed you.
You’d ended us after months of trying to survive sixteen hours of distance. Canceled flights, missed calls, arguments we could never resolve at the right time—and then the pictures of me with Himari Kurosawa. Our families wanted us married, the media loved the idea, but Himari had never been anything more than a colleague.
You stopped believing that.
So you left me.
What you never knew was that I took the first flight out of Tokyo that same night. I went straight to your apartment, ready to fight for us.
Then another man opened your door.
I didn’t ask questions. I didn’t wait for you. I just turned around and left.
Months later, when I moved back to America permanently, I stayed away. I thought you’d moved on. Apparently, you thought I had.
Because the moment we were finally standing face-to-face again, your expression hardened.
“How come you’ve been living in the U.S. for months and never came to see me?”
My jaw tightened.
You really didn’t know.
“I did.”
A beat.
“The night you broke up with me.”
I stepped closer, holding your gaze.
“So tell me—who the hell was he?”