KAIA
The door shoves back against me, and there he is.
I'd expected him to storm in or raise his voice but the weight in his eyes slams into me harder than any shout could. It’s all there, simmering beneath his skin: anger, hurt, betrayal, and… heat?
My hand drops uselessly from the knob as my throat works around a breath I can’t seem to drag down.
He steps inside, slowly and deliberate, closing the door behind him with a quiet click.
“Twice,” he says, voice low, the same eyes which has been filled with pain hours ago now fixed on me with a different kind of pain. “When was the first?”
I hold back the urge to release a sigh. Never had I thought I would have to explain something to a man like I was cheating on him.
“Ronan, I—”
“Don’t lie to me, Kaia.” His jaw flexes, eyes never leav
