Aria
Daniel turned my hand in his, his thumb pressing into the center of my palm as he continued, his expression distant and shadowed.
“After a month of silence,” he said, “Tessa reached out. She apologized and said she was ready to do something with her life but she didn’t want to work with me. I’d offered her different positions in my companies multiple time before but she kept turning them down, saying she was not ready.”
His thumb pressed deeper into my palm until it began to hurt a little.
“I was over the moon, Aria. I honestly thought I’d finally gotten through to her. I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe that all it took was me losing my temper once, refusing to speak to her for a month, for her to finally come to her senses.”
My stomach twisted at his words. Come to her s
