CHAPTER 71
ISOBEL
I shouldn’t have told him.
The moment the words left my mouth, I felt a strong sense of regret crashed over me. My body tensed as I waited for Mason’s reaction, but instead of anger, there was just silence. He was staring at me, and he had that unreadable expression on his face, his jaw was clenched tightly and he took a deep breath. The otruth I had hidden for so long was finally out in the open and he wasn’t taking it well.
I swallowed hard, and my chest felt tight. Why wasn’t he saying anything? Was he mad at me or disappointed in me? Or Maybe both? I had expected him to lash out, to yell at me for keeping such a big secret from him, but he surprised me by keeping quiet? This exhaustion in his eyes felt worse than anything he could have said.
For some reason, he d
