RAFE POV
It's been a long time since Rafe felt guilty. Five years, that was how long since guilt has turned his insides.
And now it was back.
He should have f*****g told her in the contract. He should have said it there and then and if she had refused he would have tried to persuade her. He was a businessman after all, persuading was what he does.
He didn't think the job was so important to her. Her eyes when she had pleaded with him still gave him a pain in his chest. She had seemed vulnerable then, small. Normally, Rafe would have taken great pleasure in seeing her like that, knowing he had caused it, but he felt none of that.
He had wanted to protect her when she gave him that look, wanted to shield her. But he couldn't shield her from himself.
Or couldn't he?
Well, that has
