Mason and Zoe looked at each other intensely.

He noticed she was wearing a patient’s gown and that she looked rather pale. He then realized she had a resigned look on her face as she regarded him, as if she didn’t know him at all.

It wasn’t that long ago when she was lying in his arms and speaking to him tenderly.

“It might take me years, even decades, to rediscover my love for you, Mason. Would you still want it then?”

He meant it when he said, “I would!” However, he couldn’t deny that he d