Gale refused it with all her might, frantically shaking her head as she did.

"If you hated me enough, there's no way you would have hesitated to push that knife in when there was such a good chance in front of you. While you hate me, you love me too," Shawn said calmly.

"No, that's impossible. How could that… No, it's not like that! Shawn, I don't understand what you're saying!" Gale clutched her head as she loudly rejected the idea.

One of her parents was in the hospital because of him, and