Chapter 126 Accusation
Daniel yelled, "How can you say it wasn't love, Jane? Stop lying to yourself. No matter how I treated you, you always smiled and cared for me. You cried over a small cut on my finger. How can you deny those feelings? I read your diary, all about me. You said I was your life and you'd marry me. Do those words mean nothing now?"
I stepped back, shocked and filled with despair.
I snapped, "So you knew everything and still humiliated me! You insulted me in front of everyone, made me feel worthless. You were cruel, you broke my heart and pushed me away. Now you accuse me? Fine, it was love. But how did you treat me? When you and Zoe were whispering, did you think about my love? When I was on the edge of life and death, did you think about my love? When you left me in the rain, almost costing me my life, did you think about my love? When Zoe humiliated me, did you think about my love? I've moved on, but you, with a girlfriend, come to question me. On what grounds? Who gave you the right?"
Tears flowed as years of buried pain and grievances poured out.
I thought I'd let those memories gather dust, but facing Daniel's shamelessness, I couldn't hold back. I realized I still had resentment, hatred, and regret. I just didn't care anymore.
Today, I wanted to face him, clear the past, and uproot it all.
My heart ached, and the past replayed like a movie.
I couldn't understand why he held Zoe every day but then stopped me from dating, using the past as a weapon.
'What does he want? What does he take me for?' I wondered.
No matter what, Daniel was a scumbag.
"I'm sorry, Jane. It was all my fault, and I wronged you. But you can't deny your love for me because of my mistakes. Can you say you never loved me?" Daniel pressed, his pale face showing stubbornness.
I said firmly, "I don't deny it. I did love you once. But even the deepest love can run out. If you think my feelings for you back then were love, fine. But I don't love you anymore, Daniel. The current Jane doesn't love you."
Daniel asked, "Eighteen years, and now you say you don't love me? Do you love Brad? Can you swear to God, that you love him?"
I replied, "I swear to God, I love Brad and want to be with him for life. As long as he wants me, I'll never leave."
Honestly, I hadn't fully sorted out my feelings for Brad, but Daniel's actions made things clearer.
Falling in love with Brad might not be so hard.
Compared to Daniel, I trusted Brad's love more.
"No, I don't believe it. You're lying to get back at me. You barely talk to him, how could you love him? You're just using him to get close to me, aren't you, Jane? I know I'm right." He pressed on, and I stepped back.
His face was full of madness and stubbornness.
I said, "Daniel, shut up. I won't let you talk about Brad like that. Even if you asked me yesterday, I might not have had an answer. But today, I truly understand—I love him and have loved him for a long time. I was just too foolish to realize it. Now I know, and it's not too late. Maybe I owe him, but I'll spend my life making it up to him, and he won't blame me."
"It's impossible. You're lying," Daniel shouted wildly, not caring that we were at school and people were starting to gather.
He'd gone mad!
"I'm not lying. I do love him. For so many years, from childhood to now, when I was hurt, he comforted me; when I was learning to paint, he supported me; when I was in pain, he was there. In my darkest days, he was the light pulling me towards dawn. For three years, he put effort into every meal I had. On stormy nights when I had a fever, he carried me through the wind and snow to see a doctor. When I had menstrual cramps, he went out in the middle of night to buy me sanitary pads. When I was sick and couldn't eat, he sat by my bed and fed me spoon by spoon. When I won a competition, he was happier than I was, taking me around the city to choose my favorite gift. When I came alone to the unfamiliar National Capital University for grad school, he gave up a lucrative offer from the Northern Institute of the Arts to teach here and take care of me. He has always been by my side, never saying he loves me, never burdening me, just silently taking care of me and treating me like his treasure. For so many years, even a stone would be warmed by his sincerity. Daniel, I'm not a stone. I'm a person. I have a heart. Brad is so completely devoted to me. How could I not love him?"
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