LORENZO
I have faced bullets, betrayals, and blood-soaked nights… but nothing compared to the way her silence ripped through me today.
Isabella didn't say it aloud, but her eyes did. She didn't trust me. After everything... after choosing me, after letting me mark her soul with mine she still doubted me.
I sat at the edge of the desk in my office, my fingers digging into the polished wood until my knuckles turned white.
My chest burned, my lungs refused to breathe normally, and my mind… it spiraled into chaos. I wasn't just hurt. I was shattered.
How could she look at me like that? Like I was capable of deceiving her… like I was just another monster?
I paced. Back and forth. My jaw clenched, the veins in my temple throbbing with every step. The thought of her thinking I had manipulated her made me feel stripped raw. I had let her into places no one had ever touched and told her things that made me feel human again. And now…
