"Valeria, I know I was wrong!" Dominic looked up, his eyes bloodshot and his voice hoarse, stripped of everything but utter humility and pleading. "I don't ask for your forgiveness. I only ask that you let me make amends, let me spend the rest of my life atoning for my sins! You can hit me, curse at me, treat me however you want! Just give me a chance to stay by your side, even if it's just to watch over you and protect you!"
Dignity and pride were entirely worthless in front of her.
The scene stunned the onlookers watching from a distance. Who could have imagined that the famously cold and stern Captain Langston would drop to his knees in public, begging so pitifully for a female colleague's forgiveness?
Valeria looked down at him kneeling in the dirt, a faint flicker of emotion finall
