"Don't bring up Tristan Grayson. You know perfectly well that the only thing I have left for him is hatred."
"Heh…" A sad smile touched Silas Kent's lips, his eyes filled with pain.
'Nothing left but hatred? But Mika, don't you understand? There's no hate without love. If you truly didn't love him anymore, why would you still hate his guts two years later?'
'The deeper the hatred, the deeper the love…'
'Mika, when will you finally let this go…'
*****
The first thing Cassian Jennings did upon returning to Tridell was go to see Fiona Vance.
In a coffee shop.
Fiona Vance looked at Cassian Jennings in shock. "You announced that you had an affair?"
"Mm."
"COUGH, COUGH… Cassian, why did you have to announce that? There were so many other ways to go about this. You didn't have to destroy your own reputation."
