Her heart screamed inside of her chest. It raged against her ribcage. It pulled in her bruised pride, nursing it back to health inside of the safety of her steel shell.
It was only at this moment, staring down at the coffee table full of dozens of magazines of various love affairs of Nikos Altana, that she realized there was a c***k in her perfect defense. The truth was unkind. It came with teeth and claws, and Fable's walls weren't enough to fend it off.
It was tiny, almost invisible, but Fable felt it. She felt the outrage boiling her blood and the betrayal that knocked her breath from her lungs.
Adara stared at her, silent but not unkindly, as she waited for Fable to take back her lungs from where the revelation had stolen them.
“I'm sorry, dear," Adara truly looked regretful, b
