Chapter: 2475

Naomi couldn't understand. Was rejecting someone really so difficult? Was drawing a line so impossible? Or was it simply that Dooley didn't want to?

Perhaps in his mind, that was his world. A world dictated by his principles, his loyalties, his reasons. And Naomi? She was never truly a part of it.

"This time, I'm asking for one last chance. Just one more!" Dooley pleaded.

He had never been good at comforting women. Naomi was the only woman he had ever been close to, aside from his mother.

Words failed him now, slipping through his fingers like sand. And faced with the reality of losing her, his desperation made him even clumsier.