Grace
I breathed in and out, trying to steady myself, but my chest still felt tight. There, it was out. I had actually said it. The words hung between us, and for a second, I half expected him to say something cruel and mocking, but he didn’t. Apollo simply studied me for a moment, his expression unreadable, before his voice came low.
“I see.”
I stared at him. “I see?”
He pushed away from the table, rising to his full height, and the room seemed to shrink around me.
“I already knew it was a mistake,” he said. “You made it obvious by running away from me every chance you got. So I figured what happened was an accident, and you had no idea who I was.”
I tilted my head back to meet his gaze.
So this was why people called him a calculating man to deal with, he assessed situations and c
