" no. " dark gaze turns cold in her presence, as if influenced by the icy blues staring back at him. he could lie, say that seeing her here now wasn't a gut punch to him, that he felt nothing when he thought back on all those years together, that those voicemails she'd left never replayed over and over again when he wanted to punish himself for pretending that she meant nothing to him. but it'd all be an act, an obvious one, given the way she saw right through him, so he drops any attempt to even bother putting on a brave face for her. " i don't need your sympathy, elle. " nor did he want it, and she knew that better than most. even still, a card in the mail would've been better than whatever the fuck this was.