"....." Xhemin didn't answer but just gave him a glare that Huzey laughed at again. He tapped her head for a moment and opted to ask about her errand. "So what do you need me for?"

The question immediately changed Xhemin's expression and she stiffened for a bit, drew courage and replied after she had a meaningful sight. "I don't need you for anything, but I came here to return something,"

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Without waiting for the prince to reply, Xhemin pulled something in her pocket then handed it to Huzey. It was the M Centellar ring he once gave her during the time he confessed. The sight of it silenced Huzey and as a storm of deep hurt rushed into his stomach and then to his heart. He knew already what she meant even before she said the word.

"You asked me to be your woman but sorry my prince I cannot," Xhemin almost couldn't say the words. She saw the expression that clouded Huzey's face then and she could feel her hurt. Immediately she cried. "I'm already somebody else's woman,"

Huzey tendered with his heavy heart before he looked her in the eye. "Do you love me?"

"Yes," She said without hesitation. "You already know that I do. I think you have always known even before the time I didn't realize it,"

Huzey laughed a bit at the irony of it but he understood what she meant. "You do love me…."

"But I love Darryl more," Xhemin words was a cut not only in Huzey's heart but also at her own. She was crying then that she was hurting him but she needed to do this for his sake. "I'm so sorry,"

Xhemin sobbed and Huzey struggled to keep his resolve. In the end, he smiled and chose to wipe off her tears. "All I ever wanted when I came back was for you to love me….and you did my little miss…. You did love me….that was enough,"

"Huzey," Xhemin leaned on to give the prince a warm embrace hoping she could somehow comfort him. "You are worthy of everything Huzey, I do not deserve you. You do not deserve a woman whose heart was with someone else,"

"It's okay my little miss," Huzey's chest was burning with pain but he swallowed it all and comforted himself by the thought that although they weren't meant to be she will forever be her friend and forever be his little miss. Out of all the things that he had left, their friendship was the one he treasured the most. "Truth is when I came back, I knew within myself that I love you and that I wanted to give us a chance,"

"I want to spend time with you, makeup for all the things that we have lost for you to see that somehow I might be a better choice than the Lagdameo heir. I want to shower you with gallantries, flowers and bring you to romantic dates, something better that Darryl ever gave you,"Huzey's voice became stable then and he sounded like a man full of dreams, counting all the things that he wanted the girl in front of him to experience. "However, things had gone pretty complicated my life right now and instead of wooing you, I spent all my time finding someone else and now, I just missed my chance,"

Huzey's mind was blaming himself for this heartache. When he confessed to Xhemin, he indeed planned to go the gentleman's path of showering her with wonderful things and making her happy but just as soon as he confessed to her, he knew the existence of his red angel and these made him too occupied to the point that he had lost his focus. Instead of wooing Xhemin and pursuing her, he ended up launching a nationwide search for her. All these times, apart from the predicaments in Montarini estates, he had spent his time and energy thinking about the red angel in his dreams and how he missed her very existence. He thought that perhaps if he had not changed his focus, perhaps Xhemin and him wouldn't end up this way.

"I abandoned pursuing you just after I confessed," Huzey laughed at his mistake, almost couldn't believe what he had done. Only then did he realize how foolish he had been for not prioritizing Xhemin over everything but he couldn't find any regret in his heart. It was like his heart was telling him that if time can repeat itself, he would still choose to find his red angel even when he knew he would lose Xhemin.

"Bringing me flowers and spending time with me can never change my heart Huzey," Xhemin answered truthfully. "So don't dwell on what ifs anymore because nothing can truly make me happy than being with Darryl's side. It would all be just a waste of time and I'm very glad we didn't go that far or things would have been more painful now,"

"So you are going to him?" Huzey asked, "You are leaving?"

"Yes. I came to say goodbye," Xhemin announced and looked at him with all the love she could give him. Such love might not be equal to what she felt to Darryl but it was still love.

Hearing her goodbyes and knowing she'll be gone for too long broke Huzey more but knowing that she'll end up being happy to where she was bound to go, he felt somehow happy for her. Huzey had seen how Xhemin once gave up the love of her life and rejected her very own happiness to dedicate her for their family—most specially for him—he cannot dare to stop her from chasing the Lagdameo heir now. She had suffered so much all these years, it was time for her to chase her own happiness now. Afterall Darryl was her husband, the man she clearly loved the most, the father of her children.

Knowing that she decided to leave and that it might take a while for him to see her again, the prince pulled her for an embrace. It was a long one and Xhemin allowed him to be just like her, she knew he would miss her a lot.