Once again, the hall fell deathly silent.
Sophia went pale. Her body swayed, and she nearly lost her balance.
The people who had shouted for me to kneel and apologize now felt their legs go weak.
Nathan's expression was beyond grim. He stared at me as if he were seeing me for the first time.
"You... you never told me."
Pulling Adrian's jacket more tightly around my shoulders, I looked at the man I had loved for ten years and answered calmly.
"I did tell you. I said my family lived in the South and that both my parents were in business."
"You never asked another question. You never cared, because you never believed a word I said. You dismissed it all as the ravings of a madwoman."
Regret flickered across Nathan's face. He instinctively tried to step toward me, but Adrian's bodyguard
