Chapter 131: Frankness is Costly

Damian I didn’t have an answer for that. The silence stretched between us, thick and suffocating. I could see the hurt in her eyes—the betrayal. But I also saw something else—fear. Fear that we were standing on the edge of a cliff, and there was no going back. "So, this is about you being hurt that I left," I said, knowing I had hit the nail right on the head. "This isn't about that," she snapped. "Don’t get so absorbed in your pride, Damian, that you can’t see the truth. Blake didn’t deserve that. I know he apologized once, twice, heck, he apologized more than enough times. I know exactly what this did to you. And you should have let him go. If he offered to return everything you lost, you should have fucking let him go, Damian. But you didn’t, because that’s who you are. You’re a narcissistic son of a bitch who has to have everything his own way." It wasn’t the first time I’d heard those words. I hated it, but she spoke mostly from emotion and anger. I couldn’t help but wonder, j