Chapter 16: Uriah, are you really going to be this heartless?

Adeline Scurr's face was bright as spring, and the faint, fragile look in her eyes only made her more disarming. For a split second, Uriah Greaves went distant. It felt like he had been dragged back to the moment they first met. So this was the killing power of a first love. Only, his heart was no longer the same as it had been back then. Even Adeline at her very best, even the Adeline from those early days, couldn't stir so much as a ripple in him anymore. Uriah's voice stayed flat, stripped...