Henry sighed when Kate hung up the call after he said, 'I love you.'
He often threw those three words around like it was easy to say to plenty of his romantic escapades in the past, and all of them would reciprocate instantly.
But Kate was different.
She was very vigilant and was yet to lower her guard no matter how hard Henry tried to make her happy.
"Is this karma for me?" Henry wondered. "I threw those words cheaply in the past to many women I don't like. But now I can't even get Kate to reciprocate my feelings."
Henry wanted to laugh at himself.
He knew that he was being desperate.
He shouldn't have said those words just now, but he couldn't help it.
There was this itchiness in his heart, telling him to say it with the hope that Kate would say the same words casually as if they were an old married couple.
