Over the past four years, Xavier had changed a lot as a person, but the change was forced on him and she was the one who did it. Xavier had done plenty of horrible things in his life but he had never felt much about any of those things, but the way things had been going on with her was something he was rather ashamed of.
After waiting for almost a year for Tiara to come around and love their child after Adrian was born, he just gave up. He gave up the idea and the hope that her heart would ever melt and their married life fell into a pattern where, instead of asking, Xavier had learnt to order her to do things and she never denied or tried to oppose him.
Tiara had stopped talking completely, and the only person who occasionally got to hear her voice was Xavier and, as Adrian was with his
