Chapter 15

Back at Fender Mansion, Jared had been a mess ever since the day he realized Tamara had left. He locked himself in his room and refused to speak to anyone who knocked on his door. It wasn't until his good friend, Damien Kent, kicked his door wide open one day, that he finally showed himself. Damien dragged Jared to his feet and chided, "How much longer are you going to continue like you've lost your mind? Do you know that even your court summons have started showing up at my place now?" Jared looked like he had indeed lost a grip on reality. He couldn't hear a single word Damien said. Instead, he just kept repeating Tamara's name under his breath like a mantra. "Tamara…" As it turned out, people only regretted not treasuring what they had after they had lost it. Jared had been drowning his sorrows in alcohol for the past two days, but the more he tried to forget, the more he remembered the cold words Tamara threw at him as her final straw. "I was wrong. "I was wrong for meetin