Sophia Phoenix also knew she had said too many hurtful things before. Gripping Tilly Flower's hand, she apologized with annoyance and bitterness, "It was indeed my fault, back then..." A single sentence from Tilly revived his many memories. The more he thought, the colder his heart felt.
He truly had no right to demand Tilly Flower's forgiveness.
He had waited for her all these years, perhaps arrogantly assuming she still loved him.
What he found ridiculous was that he never felt like he loved Tilly Flower, but he knew that she loved him.
This might well be his retribution; he had once wished that Tilly Flower would fall in love with someone else, and only when she truly stopped loving him did he realize he couldn't live without her.
Sophia Phoenix moved his lips but didn't know what else he could say.
At his wit's end, with nowhere left to turn, he didn't know what he could possibly do to make Tilly Flower stay.
