pte

a's

He finally l

nd look at you in that club." He

tayed home after my argument with D

e here and I won't be saddled with the responsibi

ide-eyed. He truly was as dangerous as Avira warned. I hadn't even r

towards the door. "Rest and read the d

ed my best friend, my life at the office and proper freedo

been put through something similar after Da

when they discovered she was intimate with their

ancy a secret and had me as a testament that she was once loved

r crying. The sentence was dir

. After the vows, he disappeared for two w

finally reappea

nt." I threw the file envelope o

s, still filled with cold resentment. He sw

murmured against his

My voice rose

his gla

ked at me. Like he kne

tention of staying another night in this suffocating house. But

pr

med like vultures, shovi

you killed your st

an affair? Is tha

e Romero mansion?"

issa's name in weeks, and now it was being thrown at

y won't y

your father

k, trembling, and slammed the door shut behind me.

I had left him, his e

My voice cracked, my eyes burning with unshed te

f I were a puzzle he had already solve

something at him. To demand

apsed onto the

ang. It wa

ed, pressing the

"You've humiliated

a sharp brea

at? Because of your recklessness? It's on

lled Carissa?" My voic

he said. "But I do know one thing. Car

ne wen

cheeks as I dropped th

No freedom.

gnored him at first, still sitting on

blamed for a crime I didn't commit. I couldn't

, his dark suit slightly wrinkled fro

her?" My voice was steady, but

Then, slowly, he stepped closer. The air sh

s low and dangerous. "I don'

eath

long to

voice cracked, a mixture of disb

ound my wrist. "You're my wife ca

He was only with me

grip only tightened, his tou

e, Leonardo," I spat.

chuckle. "Then why

oing back to jail, by my father's rejection, by the suffocating weight of the allegations hanging over my head. A lot o

laughing. A dry, emotion

ble before he moved, sudden and forceful. His ha

against his chest to push hi

red. My voice matchin

storm raging in his dark eyes, feel the tension in his body. And y

tr

des

hard, my p

ed, his breath wa

d, I didn't know if he

t kiss me. He wan