“What the fuck?” he barked, staring at Cassian like he had lost his mind.
Cassian remained calm.
“I’m serious,” he said with a suspicious look. “Think about it. She forgave you every single time before, right?”
Elias stayed silent.
“But suddenly,” Cassian continued, “you disappear for three months, and now she wants nothing to do with you anymore.”
“That’s because she’s angry,” Elias snapped immediately.
Cassian raised a brow.
“Is she?”
“She loves me,” Elias said firmly, though his voice sounded less certain now. “She wouldn’t even think about another man. I know her.”
His jaw tightened stubbornly.
“She liked me for years. That kind of feeling doesn’t just disappear because I was gone for three months.”
But even as he spoke, uncertainty slowly crept into his expression.
Cassian tilted his head slightly.
“Are you really one hundred percent sure about that?”
Elias’s face darkened.
Cassian continued mercilessly.
“With the way you treated her this past year? She didn’t even know whether you liked her or not.” He gave Elias a long look. “Do you honestly think a woman would never move on after that?”
Xavier snorted loudly from the side.
“This genius spent the whole year avoiding her like she was carrying some contagious disease,” Xavier mocked coldly.
Elias instantly glared at him.
“That’s because she was injured after the accident!” he snapped. “Do you think I’m an animal?”
His frustration rose immediately.
“I promised her family I wouldn’t touch her until she fully recovered. That doesn’t mean I didn’t want to kiss her.”
“Exactly,” Cassian said flatly. “You didn’t kiss her. You didn’t touch her. You barely even acted like her husband.”
He stared directly at Elias.
“And the problem is she had no idea why you were doing that.”
Elias froze.
“So what do you think she was supposed to assume?” Cassian asked bluntly.
The room fell silent.
Cassian answered the question himself.
