Chapter 20

Three days later, when Cillian came around, the nurse hesitantly handed him a report. Cillian calmly accepted the report and threw it into a shredder without looking at it. Then, he checked the Tenacious Tania account to follow Tania. No matter where Tania and Jeffrey went, he would follow them. When he'd first met Tania in college, he'd openly pursued her with vigor. All it had taken was a month to get her, and he was going to use the same trick again—fresh flowers daily, constant check-ins, and openly pursuing her once more. This time, however, Tania treated him as if he didn't even exist. Every time he tried harder to pursue her, she would end up closer to Jeffrey. … A month passed, and Cillian got more restless. He had painstakingly imported macarons to Amalonia for Tania, yet she wouldn't even bat an eye. Instead, she would open her mouth and let Jeffrey feed her wild berries he plucked from a tree by the side of the road. The berries were sour and bitter. Tania f