290 REVEAL

'What is she talking about? Is she deliberately lying so that she can run away from me? I can't let that happen.' Arthur paused and then wondered, 'But, she looks angry. She doesn't look like she is lying. Then where is the problem? What made her think that I would do such a thing?'

Arthur tried to inquire, "When did that happen? In Utahill?"

"Oh, you remember? I went to Morina's Palace where we first met. The girls there mocked me saying I was already used by you. You don't want me anymore. No one would want a broken toy like me. And then, I saw with my very own eyes what you did…"

Veronica choked at this point. Her eyes were welled up once again. She turned her head, not wanting to show her face to him.

Arthur was tongue-tied. He couldn't respond to her accusation.