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It’s always been about getting his due.
I clench my jaw and press on his chest. “It’s always been about money and business.”
Gripping my wrists, he pins them on the floor next to my face. “It’s always been about knowing you were destined to be mine.”
“You didn’t even know me,” I exclaim. “You didn’t do it for me. You did it for what you could gain from a marriage to Ben Edwards’s daughter.”
“You’re not listening to me.EverythingI did was for you.”
“Why go to such lengths for a girl you haven’t even met? I could’ve repulsed you.” I swallow a breath. “For all I know, I did.”
“It doesn’t matter that I didn’t know you. I accepted you from the moment your father agreed to give me your hand in marriage. You didn’t repulse me. Not then and not now. Quite the contrary. And even if you were as ugly as a witch with a hunchback and a mole on her nose, you still would’ve beenmine. I would’ve accepted you and cared for you no differently.”
I can’t wrap my mind around his reasoning. That kind of blind devotion doesn’t make sense. “Then why did you leave early that night of my party?”
“My dad was sick,” he says. “He had lung cancer.”
A gasp catches in my throat. “I didn’t know.”
“He didn’t want anyone to know. He saw it as a weakness.”
“I thought…”
“That I left because I didn’t find you likable or desirable? No,cara. Nothing can be further from the truth. Everyone was so pretentious in their fine attire and with their masks in place. Your sister was the perfect portrait of politeness in her prim and proper dress. Your mother was set on showing off your money, worried about everyone’s impression and judgement of the party. Then you arrived drenched in sea and salt with your see-through shirt plastered to your perfect body, and all you wanted for your birthday was that skinny little kitten.”
My heart contracts at the mention of Pirate.
“You were the only real person there,” he continues. “That’s when I knew how lucky I was. I wanted you even if you were only sixteen. The two years I waited for you to turn eighteen were the longest of my life. But you were mine already the first time I met you. You’ve been mine ever since, and you will always be mine. Once I laid my eyes on you, I couldn’t let you go. I did what was necessary to keep you, and I’ll do so until my dying day.”
At a loss for words, I can only stare at him.
He releases my wrists and cups my face, his expression both tender and tormented. Adoring and resentful. He looks at me with those opposites reflected in the depth of his haunted black eyes that mirror the duality of his being.
Angel and demon.
Kindness and cruelty.
The man I love and hate.
“The problem is, Sabella, I’ve always accepted you as my fate. You, on the other hand, have never chosen me, not after you’d gotten to know who I really am.”
He lifts off me, breaking our connection. There’s no cum to run between my legs, nothing for him to look at, because he’s kept his word in using condoms.
I open my mouth, but no words form on my lips.
Because I can’t lie to him.
Because he’s right.
After I got to know the true Angelo Russo, he’s never been my choice.
ChapterFourteen
Angelo
Ijust bared my soul to Sabella, flayed myself wide open and laid my heart at her feet, and still she doesn’t choose me.
Instead, she gives me silence.
