Chapter 82
Samantha's POV
"I'm all ears, Samantha. What do you want to know?" he asked as I had hesitated. My lips trembled, and I bit down on them to stop tears from flowing down my face. I needed to get the words out first before I could be more vulnerable.
"Because I really try, but I can't seem to understand a thing, Ric. And I deserve some closure." Alaric looked guilty, like he knew where I was getting to.
"What do you want to know?" I summoned the courage to maintain his gaze, despite how tough it was due to the way I was feeling.
"Why did you really reject me?" Alaric looked a bit surprised then he sighed deeply.
He withdrew his eyes from me. His guilt, it was so clear, even more than how it was the very day he rejected me. This guilt didn't just resurface; it looked like on
