Matt’s POV
And there it was. My biggest darkest nightmare playing out in reality right before me, and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
I couldn’t tell her anything. I needed her to genuinely hate me. I needed her to look at me exactly like she did as if I was the biggest monster on the face of the earth. And it stung. We needed her hate and disgust to be real, otherwise, The Commission would see straight through us. This had to be real. Little did they know, that even divorced I would still never go up against her. I would still bend and burn to make her happy and to protect her, regardless of the consequences.
I never wanted to see her like this, I never wanted to be the source of her pain. But if I ever surrendered in my life, it would only be to her. I had wrongly forced her
