Summer Thorne's heart suddenly tightened.
Of course, she remembered that time.
The first time he went to Eurenia after they had started their relationship, he'd gone incommunicado for over a month. So for his second trip, lost in her feelings for him, she had asked if he could hurry back within a week.
Timothy York had given her an affirmative answer.
And as it turned out, he did indeed rush back within a week.
But as soon as he returned, they had a bitter breakup.
'So that time, and even the first time before that, he had gone for treatment?'
'And because he'd promised me, he cut his second course of treatment short, which meant he still had a portion left to complete—'
'No, that's not right.'
'How could something like that happen in the middle of a treatment?'
'Could you really make up a "missed" portion of treatment more than half a year later, when there were no symptoms?'
'Was this treatment, or was it something else?'
