The moment Sebastian finished speaking, I raised my hand and slapped him hard across the face.
I lifted the hem of my skirt to reveal the prosthetic limb beneath, my voice raw and splintering.
"Because of you and Genevieve, I am a cripple now. I will be a cripple for the rest of my life. And you still dare to ask for my forgiveness. You do not deserve it.
"Sebastian, what gives you the right to tell me to forget the past? The pain was mine, not yours. You think it is that simple because you were never the one who suffered."
Panic broke across his face, and he stumbled over his words.
"That is not what I meant."
Before he could get another word out, Julian appeared and drove his fist into Sebastian, sending the kneeling man sprawling to the ground.
Sebastian's vision went black. It t
