Their history stretched back years.

When he first met her, she was such a fragile little thing, more delicate and tinged with melancholy than now.

He was merely two years her senior.

Back then, his life was a parade of beauties.

So Dylan never contemplated entangling his life with the innocent Laura, not until she entered Edwin's orbit. He couldn't bring himself to expose Edwin's true identity to her, especially now that they had parted ways. Perhaps, in his silence, Laura might see her time with Edwin as nothing but a misstep.