Lara Nash was seething as she spoke, but inside, Naomi Shaw, who was driving, was secretly smiling.
The first time Ronan Joyce took Cheryl Nash home, he and Naomi had a chance to talk. He told her how Lara Nash's family had once threatened the lives of his parents, who were far away in Syan, to force him to break up with Lara.
With the passage of time, whenever Naomi Shaw remembered their devastating separation, she couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache for them.
"But Lara said… you told her you already had a fiancée back in Syan…"
This is what she had asked Ronan Joyce. He had shaken his head bitterly. "What fiancée? Back then, I just said whatever I thought would hurt her enough to make her break things off with me!"
Naomi Shaw sighed. "After hurting her so badly back then, trying to win her back now probably won't be so easy."
"I know!"
