"She said she needs to sort everything out, and while she's at it, see if what we have between us is real love."
Asher Keating lit a cigarette. Faint smoke rose, shrouding his face and making his expression unreadable.
"Huh? Real love? After everything she's done for you, how could she not love you?"
Ethan Shaw was dumbfounded. 'Why can't I seem to understand what he's saying? Have the last few days fried my brain?'
Asher Keating looked at him as if he were an idiot. "Are you an idiot?"
"...Asher, I know you're upset. If you want to lay into me, go right ahead!"
But Asher Keating remained silent. There was no doubt that Leah Sinclair loved him. And as for why she had left, he was slowly beginning to understand after the initial agony had passed.
'It's just that Mabel Grant probably threatened to come after me if Leah didn't go back with her. That girl... she always puts me first.'
